ftp script?

[Rick Stevens]

Harold Hallikainen wrote:
> I'm trying to have ftp send a file to another machine in a shell script
> called by cron. After Googling around, reading various man pages, etc., it
> looks like I've gotten the script to log in properly by setting up stuff
> in .netrc , but I'm still having trouble sending the cd and put commands
> into ftp from the script. Can anyone give me some clues? This is running
> on an RH8 machine.

Have a look at the "ncftpput" and "ncftpget" commands.  They are
FTP client programs specifically written to be used in batch or shell
scripts.  "man ncftpput" and "man ncftpget" for details.
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