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Kalido's avatar
Kalido
Oct 13, 2021

SCP automated backup failing.

Hi Guy's,     I am following the guide https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K13418  to create and automatically transfer my UCS file to our remote backup. It creates the backup but I cannot tra...
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zamroni777's avatar
zamroni777
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Jul 09, 2024

you can try to use /bin/expect to execute scenario of interactive shell.
then put the expect execution in icall, crontab or other scheduler.

# cat /var/tmp/script.exp
set timeout -1
spawn $env(SHELL)
match_max 100000
expect "#"
send -- "scp /var/tmp/ggg.txt myusername@myserver.com:/target/path\n"
expect "Password:"
send -- "mypassword\n"
expect "# "
send -- "exit\n"
#
#/bin/expect -f /var/tmp/script.exp
...

you can create recording of other interactive shell flow file using "/bin/autoexpect -p"