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#11 Scripting SCP with Expect

Expect is a great automation tool. It is especially good at scripting SCP, FTP, and other interactive programs.

In this episode we'll create a bash script using expect to automatically SCP a log file from a server. The script could be easily extended as a cron job and modified for other uses.

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#!/bin/bash
username="username"
password="password"
host="host"
path="/path/to/file"

expect -c "
spawn /usr/bin/scp $username@$host:$path .

expect {
    "*password:*" {
        send $password\r;
        interact;
        }
    eof{
        exit
    }
}
"

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