Hi All,
I am a newbie to unix and scripting. I need to do the following job:
1. Create a batch file in windows that will call a script in a remote unix box.
2. The script now ftp files from the Remote windows machine and get them back to the local windows.

Actually, I have written the script in Perl using Net::Ftp and it is running fine among unix boxes. Now, I am supposed to make a batch file of the same so that it will run on scheduled time of a day and get the required files.


Could anybody please help me out.

Regards,
Ankur

PS: Is there any way, through which I can FTP automatically from Windows to windows, but the unix box is always there in between the transactions. I mean it is always there as an intermediate for the FTP job in my case, if done manually.

Why can't this perl script be used automatically? Why does it need to be a .bat ?

Actually what I need is a desktop shortcut to an application which when executed get the required files from the specified remote windows machine.

The entire scenario is:
First the required file gets ftped from the remote windows machine to the remote unix box and from the remote unix box to the local windows machine.

I have written a script that can ftp from remote unix to another remote unix box, but can't access a remote windows machine.

This is the sequence I need:
1. Run the batch file in local windows machine that will change the directory to current working directory and calls the perl script in the remote unix box.
2. The remote box script now ftps the required files from the remote windows machine to the remote unix box.
3. The files now get ftped to the current working directory of the local windows machines.

If there is any way in which the calling can be simplified, I have no issues on that. But the scenario need not be changed, the sequence or flow can be.

Please help. It's urgent.

netcat could probably help u out with this. im not too terribly familiar with it, but this sounds like something it can handle... as far as having a windows machine execute commands on a nix machine and vice versa.

-R3d