Re: Applescript to do SCP?
Re: Applescript to do SCP?
- Subject: Re: Applescript to do SCP?
- From: Axel Luttgens <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 07 May 2006 12:35:45 +0200
On 5/05/06 23:18, Patrick Besong wrote:
I saw your post on http://lists.apple.com/archives/applescript-users/
2003/Apr/msg01263.html and was wondering if you ever got Applescript
to work with SCP? I am trying to do the same thing right now with no
luck. When it asks for a password, there seems to be no way to pass it.
Ouch! Some kind of time machine? ;-)
Well, I never tried it seriously...
But now that you asked, I just did some experiments with expect.
Here follows a quick and dirty script, that should just be viewed as a
skeleton.
set src to "/Volumes/Data/aS"
set dst to "luttgens@127.0.0.1:/Volumes/Data/aD"
set passwd to "mypassword"
set scrpt to "expect <<EXPECTSCRIPTEND
spawn scp -q " & src & " " & dst & "
expect -re \"password:\\ $\"
send " & passwd & "\\r
expect eof
EXPECTSCRIPTEND
"
do shell script scrpt
Note 1:
The above holds for 10.3.9, where scp's prompt for the password looks like:
luttgens@127.0.0.1's password:
(with a space after the column)
On 10.4, the prompt is "Password:", so that the regular expression needs
to be adapted accordingly:
expect -re \"Password:$\"
Note 2:
The above assumes that know_hosts already contains the relevant host key.
HTH,
Axel
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