https://bioinformaticsonline.com/snippets/view/43409/inreractive-scp-file-transfer? https://bioinformaticsonline.com/snippets/view/43409/inreractive-scp-file-transfer Tue, 28 Sep 2021 08:14:04 -0500 https://bioinformaticsonline.com/snippets/view/43409/inreractive-scp-file-transfer #!/bin/bash #next line prints hearer of script echo "Interactive Script to Copy File (files) / Directory using scp" #next line check if entered value is not null, and if null it will reask user to enter Destination Server while [ x$desthost = "x" ]; do #next line prints what userd should enter, and stores entered value to variable with name desthost read -p "Destination Server Name : " desthost #next line finishes while loop done #next line check if entered value is not null, and if null it will reask user to enter Destination Path while [ x$destpath = "x" ]; do #next line prints what userd should enter, and stores entered value to variable with name destpath read -p "Destination Path : " destpath #next line finishes while loop done #next line put null value to variable filename filename='null' #next line check if entered value is null, and If not null it will reask user to enter file(s) to copy while ! [ x"$filename" = "x" ]; do #next line prints what userd should enter, and stores entered value to variable with name filename read -p "Path to source directory / file : " filename #next line checks if entered value is not null, and if not null it will copy file(s) if ! [ x"$filename" = "x" ]; then #next line prints header echo -n "Copying $filename ... " #next like copy pre-entered file(s) or dir to destination path on destination server scp -r "$filename" "$desthost":"$destpath" #end of if fi #next line finishes while loop done]]> Neel