use shell and expect to scp a file to a remote server
#!/bin/bash #upload file or folder to server #source scp_profile.sh FILE_NAME="" SERVER_HOST="123.123.123.123" SERVER_PORT=123 LOGIN_USER="username" PASSWORD="password" UPLOAD_ROOT_FOLDER="/upload_path" while getopts "f:" OPTS; do case $OPTS in f) FILE_NAME=$OPTARG ;; ?) echo "Error" exit 1 ;; esac done if [ ! -n "$FILE_NAME" ]; then echo "Error!" echo "File name must be figured out!" exit 1 fi if [ ! -f "${FILE_NAME}" ]; then echo "Error!" echo "${FILE_NAME} doesn't exist in current folder!" echo 1 fi /usr/bin/expect <<-EOF set timeout 30 spawn scp -P${SERVER_PORT} -r ${FILE_NAME} ${LOGIN_USER}@${SERVER_HOST}:${UPLOAD_ROOT_FOLDER}/ expect "password:" send "${PASSWORD}\r" expect eof EOF