Environment variables in LFTP script

Question

I am trying to run lftp with a script like so:

$ lftp -f deploy.scp

However I would like to use environment variables for l/p inside deploy.scp like so:

open -u $FTP_USER,$FTP_PASSWORD $FTP_HOST;

Is that possible in any way? I have struck out finding any help in the man-pages.

I also didn't see anything in the man page for this. It wouldn't surprise me if it couldn't be done. If you can't/don't want to use the `-u` argument for this then you could consider modifying the file at runtime and/or using a here document `lftp -f - < — Etan Reisner, Dec 02 '15 at 17:14

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 06 '16 at 10:18

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If you put this to last line of deploy.scp (*After bye command) :

open -u $FTP_USER,$FTP_PASSWORD $FTP_HOST;

then you can use the following command :

lsftp -f deploy.scp `cat deploy.scp | tail -1`

answered Jan 06 '16 at 10:18

Madvin

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Thanks for the suggestion, but I can't make it work. It doesn't connect. – Ole Jan 07 '16 at 11:08

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 07 '17 at 09:31

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You can do

<deploy.scp xargs -l sh -c 'eval echo $0 $*' | lftp

or, to save some typing, make an alias, let's say

alias xv=$'xargs -l sh -c \'eval echo $0 $*\''

and then

xv <deploy.scp | lftp

answered Jul 07 '17 at 09:31

Armali

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