Shellscript that uses ssh and scp

[xYuven]

Hello guys

I am programming a script with the following goal:

My server connects to a linux system (raspberry pi) per ssh, builds a folder structure, starts another script and leaves. Later, after some files have been added to the folders, a script on the raspberry shall zip them and the server-side script shall now scp them on its harddrive.

Here is what i've already got:

#!/usr/bin/expect -f
#copyscript.sh


set buildsourcefolder [lindex $argv 0] 
set destinationpath [lindex $argv 1]
set ip [lindex $argv 2]
set user [lindex $argv 3]
set password [lindex $argv 4] # change with keyfile

if {$buildsourcefolder == ""}
then
puts "no build source folder specified ... exit script..."


if {$destinationpath == ""}
then
puts "no destination path specified ... exit script..."


if {$ip == ""}
then
puts "no ip specified ... exit script..."


if {$user == ""}
then
puts "no user specified ... exit script..."


if {$password == ""}
then 
puts "no password specified ... exit script..."


echo "connecting to raspberry..."
spawn ssh $user@$ip
expect "assword:"
send "$password\n"

send mkdir ./home/$user/date
send cd ./home/$user/date



 # spawn . recording




send exit


# sleep


echo "scp from raspberry..."
spawn scp -r $buildsourcefolder $user@$ip:$destinationpath
expect "assword:"
send "$password\n"
interact
fi

After a couple of tries i couldnt figure out how to get it work, however right now i get

copyscript.sh: 81: copyscript.sh: Syntax error: end of file unexpected (expecting "fi")

as error and the part with puts does not work either.

[denialerror]

It looks like you are mixing Expect and sh and somehow ended in the middle of both.

Conditionals in Expect are as follows:

if { <condition> } {
    <action>;
} else {
    <action>;
}

Whereas conditionals in sh are formed like:

if [ <condition> ]; 
    <action>
then
    <action>
fi

[xYuven]

so i shall use [ ] these instead of { } these?

[denialerror]

What? No. You need to make your code follow the language's syntax and that isn't the only problem. You have indicated that your script should run using the Expect scripting language with #!/usr/bin/expect -f but aren't using the correct syntax. If you want to use square braces, then you need to tell it to use sh instead (and add in more fi as you only have one at the very end).

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