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I need to execute scp command without using expect command in script.

How to use scp with password? I have tried with following code.

HOST=lnx1
USERNAME=user
PASSWORD=pwd
PATH=/sample/data/
FILE=$1
scp $FILE $USERNAME:'$PASSWORD'@$HOST:$PATH       
sshpass -p '$PASSWORD' scp $FILE $USERNAME@:$PATH

Error messages:

scp: command not found
sshpass: command not found

How to achieve this thing?

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  • Your script has only 12 lines and the error is on line 16. Commented Sep 19, 2014 at 9:05
  • And you should not append to your question, the first one is answered and solved. Make a new one for the second otherwise the answers make no sense for the question and or title changes, so please roll back to revision 2 of your question. Commented Sep 19, 2014 at 9:10
  • user should be your actual user name. Commented Sep 19, 2014 at 12:59
  • @terdon if the "user" would be a problem, that would give a "permission denied, please try again" Commented Sep 19, 2014 at 14:58
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    I rolled back this question to its original version. Once you receive an answer that solves your initial problem, accept it and then post a new question to pursue it further. Editing the original one in this way renders the existing answers irrelevant. Commented Sep 19, 2014 at 15:05

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You have set your PATH variable to /sample/data. The previous contents of the PATH variable have been overwritten with this. As a result, your script looks in /sample/data for scp and sshpass, fails to find them there, and gives you the error messages that you are seeing.

Try changing the PATH variable name to a different name, e.g:

REMOTE_PATH=/sample/data/

scp $FILE $USERNAME:'$PASSWORD'@$HOST:$REMOTE_PATH

sshpass -p '$PASSWORD' scp $FILE $USERNAME@:$REMOTE_PATH

If that doesn't work, try putting the full path name to scp and sshpass in your script.

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  • Thanks for your time. I have updated the question. please look on it. Am getting "ssh: user: Name or service not known lost connection". Commented Sep 19, 2014 at 8:56

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