ftp script?

[Harold Hallikainen]

Thanks for the additional solution! I'll keep it on file.

Harold


>> IT WORKS!!!
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Harold
>
> Good to listen to Rick. But what about when you are on a *nix system that
> doesn't have ncftp? In that case, you can roll your own, as I have in this
> version which actually works, in spite of the author:
>
> ~/bin/ftp_put:
>
> #!/usr/bin/ksh
> # Karl Pearson
> # This version written for AIX but should work on other platforms
> if [ "$6" = '' -o "$5" = '' -o "$4" = '' -o "$3" = '' -o "$2" = '' -o "$1"
> = '' ] ; then
>   echo
>   echo Usage: ftp_put RemoteHOST USERName PASSWord LocalPATH RemotePATH
> FileNAME  echo
>   exit 0
> fi
> # Reassign variable names
> HOST=$1
> USERNM=$2
> PASSWD=$3
> LPATH=$4
> RPATH=$5
> FNAME=$6
> # execute command
> ftp -n  $HOST 2>/dev/null  <<- EOCMDS
> user $USERNM $PASSWD
> lcd $LPATH
> cd $RPATH
> put $FNAME
> EOCMDS
>
>
>>> 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.
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer     rstevens at vitalstream.com -
>>> - VitalStream, Inc.                       http://www.vitalstream.com -
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