sftp: unrecognized option: -

[Rob Buijs]

Hi,

With a sftp script like the following one, I get a deployment faillure/

 - pipe: atlassian/sftp-deploy:0.5.8
     variables:
        DEBUG: 'true'
        USER: 'wwwuser'
        SERVER: '<servername>'
        REMOTE_PATH: '<path>'
        LOCAL_PATH: '${BITBUCKET_CLONE_DIR}/<deploy stuff>'
        EXTRA_ARGS: "--exclude='.*'"

In the logs this is the sftp command that's generated. The empy '-' is the cause of the problem, but I can't find how to remove it.

sftp -b - -rp -v '--exclude='\''.*'\''' wwwuser@<servername>:<path>

[Rob Buijs]

I have a ssh key for that account, not a password. I tried with a fake password, just to see what happened:

+ echo -e '\e[37mDEBUG: Executing echo "mput /opt/atlassian/pipelines/agent/build/avada-child-theme" | sshpass -p blieb sftp -o PubkeyAuthentication=no -rp -v --exclude='\''.*'\'' wwwuser@<server>:<path>\e[0m'

error remains the same:

sftp: unrecognized option: -

[Ankit Gupta]

Hi Rob,

You can try setting the PASSWORD variable for the pipe.

As per the code: https://bitbucket.org/atlassian/sftp-deploy/src/5166e989d76963957c12e2eb2c861d9cf6ba434d/pipe.sh#lines-100

In case the $PASSWORD var isn't defined, the other sftp cmd is triggered (which leads to error for you). Its possible the cmd doesn't work with PASSWORD based servers