How to run the sftp command with a password from Bash script?

Question

I need to transfer a log file to a remote host using sftp from a Linux host. I have been provided credentials for the same from my operations group. However, since I don\'t

Answer 1

I was recently asked to switch over from ftp to sftp, in order to secure the file transmission between servers. We are using Tectia SSH package, which has an option --password to pass the password on the command line.

example : sftp --password="password" "userid"@"servername"

Batch example :

(
  echo "
  ascii
  cd pub
  lcd dir_name
  put filename
  close
  quit
    "
) | sftp --password="password" "userid"@"servername"

I thought I should share this information, since I was looking at various websites, before running the help command (sftp -h), and was i surprised to see the password option.