sftp in batch mode - please help me with my script

[FunkyD]

I have two servers - A and B, I want B to connect to A and pull all the .tgz files it sees in a directory.

I have the process working if I hard code the paths and servernames etc but cannot get to work using variables. Here are my two scripts:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

my $esxbackupserver = '192.168.110.235';

my $sftpfile = '/vmfs/volumes/Data2/backup/sftpfile';

my $sftp = 'sftp';

system $sftp, '-b', '$sftpfile','$esxbackupserver';

The second file (sftpfile) is the command for sftp

cd /vmfs/volumes/Software/Backup

get *.tgz

When I run the script I get:

No such file or directory ($sftpfile).

As I say, hard coded it works fine but being a newbie to Perl I am obviously overlooking something - can anyone help? Thanks

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RDPetruska

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[dingding · Accepted solution]

you should change single quote to double quote, since if you use single quote, the variable will not be resolved and the system will regard it as a hard coded string,

just change it from:

system $sftp, '-b', '$sftpfile','$esxbackupserver';

to

system $sftp, '-b', "$sftpfile","$esxbackupserver";

i am sure it will works.