sftp copy files from windows server to linux server using shell scripting

Question

I am working on shell script that is supposed to transfer files (with their subdirectories) from a Windows Server to a Linux-Samba server. The Windows server is setup to accept sftp requests and I am logging into the Windows server with shared ssh keys so there is no need for a password exchange. I can log into the Windows from the linux server with this command:

    sftp user@host_name

It executes the sftp command and logs me into the Windows server. When I try to use the:

    get -r /home_directory/first_level/* /local/directory/to/put/files

I get an error message saying "Invalid flag -r". I can't use SCP because it is not enabled on the server.

What can I do in order to recursively copy all the files and directories from the Windows server to the linux server using a shell script?

Answer 1

您可以将Cygwin安装到Windows服务器上，然后从那里启动一个scp -r 。

Answer 2

Could you show us a bigger snippet of the script?

Also, the get keyword is part of sftp lingo, are you doing something like this?

#!/bin/bash

sftp -v -oIdentityFile=path user@server<<-_EOF_
    get -r /home/dir/first_level/* /local/dir/to/put/files
    bye
_EOF_

# etc etc