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So we have a mac that was stolen. We have Undercover installed and hope to see it pop up soon but I would like to be able to recover the /Users/username/Desktop/ and /Users/username/Pictures/ folders if I can. She is quite bother by her children's photos being out there.



I have the start of a script but I am having both an issue with expect and spawn at this point.



#!/usr/bin/expect



    spawn scp -r /Users/username/Desktop/ root@remoteserver:/remote/path/to/upload

    expect "(yes/no)?" {send "yes

”}

    expect "Password:" {send "secretpassword

”}

    spawn scp -r /Users/username/Pictures/ root@remoteserver:/remote/path/to/upload

    interact


spawn throws an error about not being a command and my expect command does not seem to work.

If she is just bothered by the photos being out there wouldn't it be faster and easier to just delete both directories as soon as it connects?

She had not been running Time Machine as directed

I hope you're getting something good out of this. Here's a similar script I've written, which worked to remotely upload a zip of files on users' machines.



#!/bin/sh



## Get User Name.

loggedInUser=`/bin/ls -l /dev/console | /usr/bin/awk '{ print $3 }'`



## Add all of the folders in the list to a zip.

zip -r /tmp/$loggedInUser.zip /Users/$loggedInUser/Documents/CollectionFolder/*



## sFTP to secure location

HOST='HostHere'

USERNAME='sftpusr'

PASSWD='PWHere'

PORT=22

FILE=/tmp/$loggedInUser.zip



/usr/bin/expect<<EOD



spawn /usr/bin/sftp -o Port=$PORT $USERNAME@$HOST

expect "Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)?"

send "yes

"

expect "Password:"

send "$PASSWD

"

expect "sftp>"

send "cd '/volumes/Data 1/Transfer'

"

expect "sftp>"

send "put $FILE

"

expect "sftp>"

send "bye

"

EOD

Ill give that a try that looks like exactly what I need. Thanks!

so can the list go as such?



## Add all of the folders in the list to a zip.

zip -r /tmp/$loggedInUser.zip /Users/$loggedInUser/Desktop/* /Users/$loggedInUser/Pictures/*

Yup

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