Getting "Unknown command" when using "lftp -e"

Question

I'm working on a bash script to automate FTP sessions, so I can run the same commands on multiple servers automatically)

lftp -u username,password ip_address -e **FILE_WITH_COMMANDS**

So the problem is that I somehow can't use a file with -f because I get an error like this:

Unknown command `commands'.

Does anybody know how to get around this problem?

Thank you very much!

Answer 1

To execute commands loaded from a file, use the -f switch:

-f execute commands from the file and exit

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The -e switch is for executing a command specified on the command-line:

-e execute the command

So when you use -e commands , the lftp interprets it as a request to run the commands command. And there's no commands command, hence the error.

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See also https://lftp.yar.ru/lftp-man.html