Re: Is it possible to "script" and FTP session???

[Nico De Ranter <nico sonycom com>]

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> A friend of mine asked if I could set up his Linux box to automatically FTP
> some files from a specific directory every time he connects to the Internet.
> He is using 'ifup ppp0' to connect.  I had done something similar to this
> for myself but using E-mail.  Is there any way to get FTP or 'ncftp' to
> automatically log in to an ftp site, change to a local directory and then
> transfer files upon connection?  I looked at the man pages for 'ftp' and it
> looked like the macdef command would do this to a certain extent.  Am I on
> the right track?

I used the following script to download files in background (nohup)

#!/bin/sh

{ 
     echo "bin" ;
     echo "prompt" ;
     echo "cd <the directory>/" ;
     echo "get <the file>" ;
     echo "bye";
} | ftp <the server>



> 
> Thanks,
> G. Lenzer
> 
> 
> 
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