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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to check whether files are transferred or not using ftp? Post 302785623 by zaxxon on Tuesday 26th of March 2013 04:38:52 AM
Old 03-26-2013
The binary ftp always returns 0 as itself has no functional errors. For errors regarding the file transfer, there are other codes, which can't be accessed via $?. They can only be parsed as text output from ftp.
Can you use something else like scp? That might make it much easier as you can use $? again and would be encrypted ie. safer. It would need an exchange of a key though because it works password-less when being used non-interactive.
If there is no way of key exchange for authentication, you could still feed it with expect for example.
 

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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS

ftp

ftp(4)								   File Formats 							    ftp(4)

NAME

       ftp - FTP client configuration file

SYNOPSIS

       /etc/default/ftp

DESCRIPTION

       Use  the ftp file to configure the behavior of the FTP client. Lines that begin with a hash symbol ("# ") are treated as comment  lines and
       are ignored.

   Behavior Directives
       The ftp file supports the following behavior directives:

       FTP_LS_SENDS_NLST=yes | no    The ls command of the ftp client sends an NLST to the FTP Server by default. Several non-Solaris clients send
				     LIST  instead.  In  order	to  make  the  Solaris	ftp  client  send  LIST when the ls command is issued, set
				     FTP_LS_SENDS_NLST to no. The value of FTP_LS_SENDS_NLST is yes by default.

       If the user sets a value for FTP_LS_SENDS_NLST in the user's environment, this value will override any FTP_LS_SENDS_NLST directive that	is
       specified in /etc/default/ftp.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5)  for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWbipr			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       ftp(1), attributes(5)

SunOS 5.11							    22 Oct 2002 							    ftp(4)
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