Shell Programming and Scripting

echo $ftp_ctr returns '0' instead of '1'. Please help

Code:

331 Enter password
230 User logged in
200 Transfer mode set to BINARY
local: file1 remote: file2
227 Entering Passive Mode (xxxxxxxx).
125 Uploading in BINARY file xxx 
226 Transfer completed
24453780 bytes sent in 67 seconds (3.6e+02 Kbytes/s)
221 bye
0

Code:

# Upload to ftp 
################################################### 
ftp -v -n $HOST <<EOF
quote user $FTPUSER
quote pass $PASSWD
cd "/name1/name2"
bin
put $FILEIN $FILEOUT
EOF
 
# Check the ftp status and file
# ## wc -l tells the number of lines (accounts)
################################################### 
ftp_ctr=`ftp<<EOF| grep "226 Transfer complete" | wc -l
EOF
`
echo $ftp_ctr

I'm unsure what you are doing in your wc statement with the ftp command, but I always redirect the ftp to a log and then grep from that log.

Code:

ftp -pnv > /tmp/ftp.log <<-EOF
...
EOF
CHECKERR=`cat /tmp/ftp.log | grep 226 | wc -l`

use grep -c 226, oneless pipe

cannot use ftp -pvn


here is the message :

Code:

ftp: p: unknown option
Usage: ftp [-v] [-d] [-i] [-n] [-g] [-k realm] [-f] [-x] [-u] [-t] [host]

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Use your orginal ftp statement, mine was just a example, but just add the redirect before the <<EOF in your just like I did in mine.

Yes, thank you:

# Upload to ftp
###################################################
ftp -v -n $HOST > /temp/ftp.log <<EOF
quote user $FTPUSER
quote pass $PASSWD
cd "/name1/name2"
bin
put $FILEIN $FILEOUT
EOF

# Check the ftp status and file
# ## wc -l tells the number of lines (accounts)
###################################################
ftp_ctr=`cat /temp/ftp.log | grep 226 | wc -l`
echo $ftp_ctr[/CODE]