How to enable sshpass output to console

Question

Using scp and interactively entering the password the file copy progress is sent to the console but there is no console output when using sshpass in a script to scp files.

$ sshpass -p [password] scp [file] root@[ip]:/[dir]

It seems sshpass is suppressing or hiding the console output of scp. Is there a way to enable the sshpass scp output to console?

Answer 1

After

sudo apt-get install expect

the file send-files.exp works as desired:

#!/usr/bin/expect -f

spawn scp -r $FILES $DEST
match_max 100000
expect "*?assword:*"
send -- "12345\r"
expect eof