Expect or sftp question ?

From: newexpectuser (anthonypieper_at_cs.com)
Date: 10/28/03 

Date: 28 Oct 2003 05:29:55 -0800

I'm not sure if this falls into an Expect or sftp question, but I am
trying to get some files into the /client/files/in directory.

This script is called from another script. When the line lpwd runs, it
does give me "client/files/in", but my files don't get transfered into
this directory. I've tried to add a sleep command just in case it was
running too fast. It seems the lcd command is not working properly.

#!/usr/bin/expect -f
spawn sftp root@xxx.xxx.xx.xxx
set timeout 180
set FAILED 2
set CDFAILED 3
expect {
    timeout {
        exit $FAILED
    }
    "password:" {
       send "xxx\r"
    }
}
expect "sftp>"
send "cd /customer/mailbox/inbox\r"
expect "sftp>"
send "lcd /client/files/in\r"
sleep 30
expect {
    "Couldn't canonicalise: No such file or directory" {
        exit $CDFAILED
    }
    "sftp>" {
        send "lpwd\r"
        send "mget *.dat\r"
    }
}
expect "sftp>"
send "quit\r"

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