On 10/7/05, Kevin Lombardo <kevin.lombardo at gmail.com> wrote: > Hello- > > I am creating a shell script to transfer files with sftp. The script works, > but I'm not sure how to handle problems, such as incomplete downloads due to > network issues. > > Does anyone have any suggestions on how to check/handle sftp errors from > within a shell script? The variable "$?" gives you the exit status of the last command. Check it immediately following your sftp command. Most well written UNIX programs will return 0 on success and non-zero otherwise. Scot