SFTP to send file with bash script

Question

I\'m using key authentication, so password is not an issue. I have a file whose name I know and I simply want to send it to another machine over sftp.

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Answer 1

You said that you are not interested in other tools, but scp is a much better choice for unattended file transfers. Here is an scp example:

scp test.txt root@remote:/root/dropoff