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gyambqt
Obsidian | Level 7

Hi Experts,

 

I am willing to transfer files from a remote SFTP server to local linux server and my command is below:

Is there any problem with my code below as an example?

 

method1:

%let ftpcmd = "sftp -i path of SSHKEY username@sftpserverdetail:/sftppath/file.csv /localpath/file.csv";
filename ftppipe pipe &ftpcmd.;

data _null_;
infile ftppipe;
input;
put _infile_;
run;

 

 

 

method2:

%let ftpcmd = "scp username@sftpserverdetail:/remotesftppath/file.csv /localpath/file.csv";
filename ftppipe pipe &ftpcmd.;

data _null_;
infile ftppipe;
input;
put _infile_;
run;

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Kurt_Bremser
Super User

Add "2>&1" to your commands, like

"sftp -i path of SSHKEY username@sftpserverdetail:/sftppath/file.csv /localpath/file.csv 2>&1"

This will reroute stderr to stdout, so you can catch diagnostic messages in the DATA step. After that, run your code and read the log.

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