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Mark1110
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Aug 19, 2011, 2:15 PM

Post #1 of 5 (2650 views)

help with scp command	Can't Post

Hi,

I need to modify an scp command that is executed in a perl script. The current scp command is:

`scp /broker/user/csp/myTestFile.txt pushme\@bridge.myCompany.com:/secureftp/myCompany/compass/testDirectory/OUTBOUND/test`;

What I need to do is to add an date string to the file name. I wrote the following code:

$timeStamp = &TimeStamp;
$tranFileName = "myTestFile";

`scp /broker/user/csp/` .$tranFileName."_".$timeStamp.".txt". ` pushme\@bridge.myCompany.com:/secureftp/myCompany/compass/testDirectory/OUTBOUND/test`;

sub TimeStamp {

my ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,
$wday,$yday,$iddst) = localtime(time);
my $datestring;

$year += 1900;
$mon++;
$mon = insert0($mon);
$mday = insert0($mday);
$min = insert0($min);
$sec = insert0($sec);

$datestring = "$year$mon$mday";

return($datestring);

}

sub insert0 {
my ($date) = shift;

if ($date < 10) {
return "0$date";
}

return $date;
}

I would like to file transmitted to be myFileName_20110819.txt. Can I break up the scp command like this? If not, how would it be written.

Thanks,

Mark

FishMonger
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Aug 19, 2011, 4:38 PM

Post #2 of 5 (2642 views)

Re: [Mark1110] help with scp command [In reply to]	Can't Post

First, add the warnings and strict pragmas and declare your vars, which is done by prefixing them with the 'my' keyword. And don't use CamelCase naming. Use an _ underscore to separate the words.

Next, get rid of those 2 subs. They are a very messy way of formatting the date string. Use the strftime function from the posix module.

Don't use the backticks operator in void context. The backticks are used to capture the output of an external command, which you're not doing. If you don't want to capture the output of the scp command, then use the list form of the system function or one of the IPC::Open modules.

Code

use strict; 
use warnings; 
use POSIX qw(strftime); 
 
my $tran_filename = strftime("/broker/user/csp/myTestFile_%Y%m%d.txt", localtime); 
 
my @cmd = qw($tran_filename pushme@bridge.myCompany.com:/secureftp/myCompany/compass/testDirectory/OUTBOUND/test); 
 
system(@cmd) == 0 or die "system '@cmd' failed: $?;

In this case, I'd probably use the Net::SCP module instead of the system call.
http://search.cpan.org/~ivan/Net-SCP-0.08/SCP.pm

(This post was edited by FishMonger on Aug 19, 2011, 4:43 PM)

FishMonger
Veteran / Moderator

Aug 20, 2011, 6:26 AM

Post #3 of 5 (2626 views)

Re: [FishMonger] help with scp command [In reply to]	Can't Post

While going over some of my thread postings, I noticed that I left out an important part of the system call. I didn't specify the scp command, I just specified its arguments.

Here's the corrected cmd.

Code

my @cmd = qw(scp $tran_filename pushme@bridge.myCompany.com:/secureftp/myCompany/compass/testDirectory/OUTBOUND/test);

Mark1110
New User

Aug 22, 2011, 9:39 AM

Post #4 of 5 (2582 views)

Re: [FishMonger] help with scp command [In reply to]	Can't Post

Hi,

I tried inserting your code into my perl module and I am getting an error message on the system(@cmd) == 0 or die "system '@cmd' failed: $? statement. The message I am getting is failed: -1. I then tried putting the scp command in front of the $tran_filename and I got failed: 256. Do you know what I am doing wrong?

Thanks,

Mark

Mark1110
New User

Aug 22, 2011, 10:42 AM

Post #5 of 5 (2580 views)

Re: [FishMonger] help with scp command [In reply to]	Can't Post

What I did to get it to work was the following:

my @cmd = "scp ".$tran_filename." ".
qw(pushme@bridge.myCompany.com:/secureftp/myCompany/compass/testDirectory/OUTBOUND/test);

What was happening was the qw function was deleting all the spaces so the @cmd was scp$tran_filenamepushme@bridge.myCompany.com:/secureftp/myCompany/compass/testDirectory/OUTBOUND/test

which was why I was getting an error. Thanks for all your help.

Mark

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