Re: HOWTO : make a automatique FTP

["Anthony E. Greene" <agreene pobox com>]

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On 31-Jul-2002/20:25 +0200, cana rich <canarich yahoo com> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>    I would like to make a ftp (mput for exemple)
>automatiquely launched by a crontab.
>Is someone can help me, please?
>
>- Can i do it with a shell or have i to do this with a
>C program?
>- What is the syntax?
>- ftp -uuser -ppassword binary mput filename ?

The ftp client ships with Linux is scriptable. Just put the commands
that you would normally type into a file. It might look like this:

open ftp.mydomain.com
lcd /some/local/dir
cd /some/remote/dir
binary
prompt
mput *
quit

See the ftp man page for a description of all commands.

If the server requires a login, create a ~/.netrc file with permissions
0600 that contains the login info (man netrc):

machine ftp.mydomain.com    login myname    password mypassword


Then run ftp with the script as input:

  ftp < myftpscript


Tony
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