>> In the script below "echo $all" prints:

>> put File1

>> put File2

>> ...

>> however $all in the heredoc DATA expands to

>> put FILE1\nput FILE2\nput ...

>> ###########################

>> #!/bin/sh

>> FILE_LIST="

>> File1

>> File2

>> File3

>> File4

>> File5

>> "

>> nl="\n"

>> for each in $FILE_LIST

>> do

>>           all=$all"put "$each${nl}

>> done

>> echo $all

>> stty -echo

>> read -p "Password: " pass; echo

>> stty echo

>> export SSHPASS=$pass

>> sshpass -e sftp -oBatchMode=no -b - user@address <<DATA

>>           cd /home/dev/www

>>           $all

>>           bye

>> DATA

> Two changes should help:

> use the special dollar-single-quote form:

> nl=$'\n'

> and

> use quoting:

> echo "$all"

> Also, you can suppress character output during read for passwords without using stty by doing using -s (and you should almost always use -r):

> read -s -r -p "Password: " pass

> Change your shebang to specify Bash:

> #!/bin/bash

> because on many systems /bin/sh is not a symlink to Bash.