SFTP bash shell script to copy the file from source to destination

Question

I have created one script to copy the local files to the remote folder. The script is working fine outside of if condition. But when I enclosed inside the if condition the put command is not working. It logged into the remote server using SFTP protocol and when exist it's showing the error:

put command not found

See what is happening after executing the script:

Connected to 10.42.255.209.
sftp> bye
sftp.sh: line 23: put: command not found

Please find the below script.

echo -e;
echo -e "This script is used to copy the files";
sleep 2;

localpath=/home/localpath/sftp
remotepath=/home/destination/sftp/

if [ -d $localpath ]
 then
   echo -e "Source Path found"
   echo -e "Reading source path"
   echo -e "Uploading the files"
   sleep 2;

        sftp [email protected]
        put $localpath/* $remotepath

else

Answer 1

In a simple case such as this, you could use scp instad of sftp and specify the files to copy on the command line:

 scp $localpath/* [email protected]:/$remotepath/

But if you would rather want to issue sftp commands, then sftp can read commands from its stdin, so you can do:

  echo "put $localpath/* $remotepath" | sftp [email protected]

Or you can use a here document to pass data as stdin to sftp, which might be easier if you want to run several sftp commands:

sftp [email protected] << EOF
put $localpath/fileA $remotepath/
put $localpath/fileB $remotepath/
EOF

Finally, you could place the sftp commands in a separate file, say sftp_commands.txt , and have sftp execute those commands using its -b flag:

 sftp -b ./sftp_commands.txt [email protected]