Shell script to spwan sftp process; cronjob; UNIX

Below script can be scheduled to run every 5 mins to fetch files remote to local server.

Crantab -e would allow you to schedule jobs on LINUX servers. 

#!/bin/bash

/usr/bin/expect << EOF

spawn sftp USERNAME@host

expect "Connecting to 127.0.0.1..."

expect "password:"

send "Enter Credential\r"

expect "sftp>"

send "cd Test\r"

expect "sftp>"

send "lcd /home/username/App-Files\r"

expect "sftp>"

send "mget * \r"

expect "sftp>"

send "rm * \r"

expect "sftp>"

send "quit \r"

EOF