Does ftp from unix have an exit status. In the sense after ftp is invoked and if the ftp fails during file transfer does it exit out with a status other than 0. What is do right now is invoke ftp and right it to a log and then grep for 'File Transferred Sucessfully'. Is this the only way to do it or is there a better way of doing this.
Also, I noticed that a couple of time my script did not process the part where it actually ftp's and returned as success. Any explanation as to why this happened.