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Old 02-10-2015
WARNING! 16126 bare linefeeds received in ASCII mode
I am doing FTP from a server and getting below ERROR:
Code:
WARNING! 16126 bare linefeeds received in ASCII mode
File may not have transferred correctly.

I looked into web and found that I may need to change the mode to binary, but when I do so the records are not in readable format...So need the file in ascii so that I can use it in our ETL.

below is the script:
Code:
ftp -n  $SERVER <<EOF>./ftp.log
user $USER $PASSWD
ascii
cd ..
cd $DIR
get $FTP_FILE $LOCAL_FILE
bye
EOF

Last edited by rbatte1; 02-10-2015 at 11:59 AM.. Reason: Added CODE tags for output
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Old 02-10-2015
What is the ftp server's O/S. What do you mean by unreadable? What is the ftp client's O/S. Did you try a different client like filezilla? Te ftp script is not the issue.
# 3  
Old 02-10-2015
The source server is mainframe server and the server where this script is running is Linux.. Not readable means something like below:

נסײענסץנסףנ@@@@ֳד׃נננננפרפףענסץנסעשננננננננננ@
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Old 02-10-2015
A "mainframe" might supply differently coded files, e.g. EBCDIC. Try to transfer the file in binary mode and then convert it using e.g. iconv or recode.
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Old 02-10-2015
dd has built in ASCII - EBCDIC conversion.

dd if=oldfile of=newfile conv=ascii gives you a file converted from EBCDIC to ASCII. The only caveat is: do you have packed decimal data (raw "binary" formatted numbers) coming in from the mainframe - dd will not handle that.
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Old 02-11-2015
I tried dd but it is not converting the file correctly as it has few packed decimal columns in it..

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I tried iconv and it says "iconv: conversion from EBCDIC unsupported" and recoded says "No manual entry for recode."....

Can anyone please help me here.. Smilie
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Old 02-11-2015
If you have packed data on the server, your best bet will be to unpack the data on the server to a straight text format either in ASCII (if you can which won't require any further conversion after you upload your data) or in EBCDIC (in which case you can then use dd to convert the EBCDIC to ASCII after you upload your data).
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