I'm missing something obvious....

Khannie

I have a shell script. As part of it, it does an scp of the command line arguments to a remote server.

script.sh file\ 1.txt file\ 2.txt

My problem is this - when I invoke the script I try to do scp $* <destination> within the script. With spaces it borks and scp treats each word as an argument (e.g. "file" and "1.txt"). Escaping does not work. Quotes do not work (single or double).

I could do for i in blah, but the key for the destination has a password associated with it that I do not want to / cannot remove and I don't want to enter it each time / only want to be authenticated once.

I'm clearly missing something trivial. What is it?

azzeretti

Khannie wrote: »

I have a shell script. As part of it, it does an scp of the command line arguments to a remote server.

script.sh file\ 1.txt file\ 2.txt

My problem is this - when I invoke the script I try to do scp $* <destination> within the script. With spaces it borks and scp treats each word as an argument (e.g. "file" and "1.txt"). Escaping does not work. Quotes do not work (single or double).

I could do for i in blah, but the key for the destination has a password associated with it that I do not want to / cannot remove and I don't want to enter it each time / only want to be authenticated once.

I'm clearly missing something trivial. What is it?

What's the scp command in the sh file?
Why not setup your ssh agent to store the passphrase, just the once?

EDIT: Rubbish removed!

Khannie

scp $* <destination>

Khannie

azzeretti wrote: »

Why not setup your ssh agent to store the passphrase, just the once?

I want to understand what the problem is. I'll almost certainly face it again at some point. (and I feel like I may have in the past )

azzeretti

Opps, I edited while you were posting!! See above ^^

azzeretti

I am with you now. You need to pass the files in quotes then use the scp line below:

scp $@ <destination> #NOT $*

mw@YouBun2:~/perl$ ./scp.sh "two file.pl" "three file.pl" 
sending two file.pl three file.pl

count 2

me@172.16.0.229's password: 
two file.pl                                                                                                          100%   38     0.0KB/s   00:00    
three file.pl                                                                                                        100% 1311     1.3KB/s   00:00    
mw@YouBun2:~/perl$

And this is the actual script:

#!/bin/sh

echo "sending $*\n"
echo "count $#\n";

scp "$@" me@172.16.0.229:/tmp

Too much Turbo Cider!

humbert

Is this the same issue?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/448407/bash-script-to-receive-and-repass-quoted-parameters

Khannie

I think that should solve it. Can't currently access the box, but I will verify and get back to you. Thanks.