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I am writing a backup script which will download all backups begins with hostname f.e MikroTik which is contained in variable device. When I put command in terminal it will download all files I need, but when I put it tot script, then it show me message file Mikrotik not found.

Here is the code sample:

#!/bin/bash
user="admin"
address="IP"
#command will get devcie hostname in complex form 
ssh $user@$address '/system identity print interval=' > devices

#will get device hostname
tmpDevices=$(cat devices)

device=$(echo $tmpDevices | awk ' print $2 ')
echo "Device hostname is $device"

echo "Connecting to device via SFTP and downloading files"
#sftp "$user@$address:/$device*"
sftp $user@$address:$device* 

Here is the output:

Device hostname is MikroTik
MikroTik
Connecting to device via SFTP and downloading files
Connected to 10.120.0.253.
File "/MikroTik" not found.

Can you please advice me.

Adrian.

You might consider using scp instead of sftp. Assuming that you want to copy files from the root directory on the remote host to the current directory on the local host:

scp "$user@$address:/$device*" . 

For example, I've created the following files on a remote host:

$ ssh user@remoteHost "ls /MikroTik*"
/MikroTik_dec07backup.backup
/MikroTik_dec07export.rsc
/MikroTik_dec07log.txt

From my local host, I can do:

$ mkdir /tmp/example
$ cd /tmp/example
$ scp "user@remoteHost:/MikroTik*" .
MikroTik_dec07backup.backup 100% 0 0.0KB/s 00:00
MikroTik_dec07export.rsc 100% 0 0.0KB/s 00:00
MikroTik_dec07log.txt 100% 0 0.0KB/s 00:00
$ ls
MikroTik_dec07backup.backup MikroTik_dec07export.rsc MikroTik_dec07log.txt
$

adrian@adrian-ThinkPad-X230:~/Desktop/zaloha$ sftp admin@IP:/MikroTik*
Connected to IP.
Fetching /MikroTik_dec07backup.backup to MikroTik_dec07backup.backup
/MikroTik_dec07backup.backup 100% 10KB 10.5KB/s 00:00 
Fetching /MikroTik_dec07export.rsc to MikroTik_dec07export.rsc
/MikroTik_dec07export.rsc 100% 329 0.3KB/s 00:00 
Fetching /MikroTik_dec07log.txt to MikroTik_dec07log.txt
/MikroTik_dec07log.txt 100% 75KB 75.1KB/s 00:00 

When I use it ion script as :

#!/bin/bash
user="admin"
address="IP"
#command will get devcie hostname in complex form 
ssh $user@$address '/system identity print interval=' > devices

#will get device hostname
tmpDevices=$(cat devices)

device=$(echo $tmpDevices | awk ' print $2 ')
echo "Device hostname is $device"

echo "Connecting to device via SFTP and downloading files"
#sftp "$user@$address:/$device*"
sftp $user@$address:$device* 

Output is:

Connecting to device via SFTP and downloading files
Connected to address.
File "/MikroTik" not found.