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Old 09-14-2010
Issue with ftp

Hi friends,

in one of the script i am doing ftp from solaris to a windows machine. From there i wll cd to specific directory.

Now, let's say the directory is not there, then the cd command will fail.
So, how i wll get to know here(in the unix box) that the command has failed.

Thanks
# 2  
Old 09-14-2010
ftp does not return an error on exit, it prints return codes while it is running.
List of FTP server return codes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Code:
#!/bin/ksh
echo "
open nodename
user username password
cd /somewhere
put myfile
bye
"  | ftp -n 2&>1 > ftp.log
egrep '(^4|^5)' ftp.log   # check for a return code like 5xx or 4xx
if [ $? -eq 0 ]  ; then
  echo 'okay'
else
  echo 'ftp failed'
fi

# 3  
Old 09-14-2010
You could also just add
Code:
mkdir directory

to the beginning of the ftp input.
If it does not exist it will be created. If it does exist you will only get a message saying that it already exists, and your ftp script will continue.
# 4  
Old 09-14-2010
There are also some FTP clients which provide options to check whether a directory exists or not before starting a transfer, and create the folder structure if needed.
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