Re: SFTP using expect.

[Jack Woehr <jwoehr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Not supposed to ... there are tricks to using expect. You may have to slow
it down if periodically your connection has a delay for a moment.
When you create your script using *autoexpect* there are lots of comments
embedded in it with suggested settings for that sort of thing.

On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 8:57 AM Gerald Magnuson <gmagqcy.midrange@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> we are switching from FTPs to SFTP.
> sometimes we have a large number of files to receive.
> and the files have very long file names.
>
> we use "MGET *.edi"   to perform the receive.
>
> it _appears_ that after about 10 or 12 files, the process dies.  The
> expect log  appears that it just "filled up".   if we have less than that
> number
> of files, the process works just fine.
>
> does EXPECT have some limit in the size of data it will process?
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