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Old 04-25-2007
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Originally Posted by jithinravi
Hi, could anyone please tell me how can i write an interactive script so that i can connect to an FTP and pass the username and password when prompted.
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i there any way tht i can store the usid n psswd in a file and use tht to pass the parameters to the script?

Read the ftp man page; pay special attention to the section on the .netrc file.

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i am workin on TC shell.

Don't use tcsh for scripting.
http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/CshTop10.txt
http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Csh.html#uh-0
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/