I have a Perl script that also uses an Expect script. When the script runs the file is copied but the information inside is not there. anyone hear of this before? 
spawn sftp test@testserver.com

expect -exact "password:"

send "password"

expect "sftp>"

send "get /export/home/testfile/test /home/btobin0/damitsnotworking/

expect "sftp>"

send "exit"

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This is the perl code. works just fine


for (8 .. 46){

system ("expect net");

< A bunch of Perl Code >

sleep 300
}

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I tried to send the file from the SFTP prompt manually and now I am now gettting the error: Couldn't open local file "/home/btobin0/damitsnotworking/" for writing: No such file or directory It does exist. How do I fix it?

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