Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I'm trying to automate a ftp from a unix box to a windows directory. But i want it to count and only move the files if they are there so that i can cron it. This is what i have, but seems to be failing, can anyone spot what is going wrong?

#! /usr/bin/ksh

cd ????/????/par/942852
HOST=???.???.???.???
USER=USER
PASSWD=PWRD
count="$(find ????/????/par/942852/ -name "????*" -print | wc -l)"
if [[ $count -gt 0 ]]
then
exec 4>&1
ftp -nv >&4 2>&4 |&
print -p open $???.???.???.???
print -p user $USER $PWRD
print -p cd \\???.???.???\WINDOWS\SYSTEM
print -p ascii
print -p put ????*
print -p bye
wait
exit 0
else
exit 0
fi

cd ????/????/par/942852
mv ????* cd ????/????/par/942852/proc/

Here are some suggestions that might help you.

Code:

COUNT=`ls /foo/bar/foobar* | wc -l`

may be better code then the find you have executing.

Then I would say if count didn't equal 0 then use

Code:

mput foobar*

in the ftp rather then

Code:

put foobar*

. I believe that using the wild card with put will fail.

there is a syntax error here, anyone know what it is?

./ftp_?????.sh: line 10: syntax error near unexpected token `&'
./ftp_?????.sh: line 10: ` ftp -nv >&4 2>&4 |&'

Tried to remove the |& leaving:

ftp -nv >&4 2>&4

But then i just get the ftp prompt, there must be a way to automate this?

What i do, but it might be over kill, is create a .netrc file in the home directory of the user that will be FTPing. The permissions set to 700. In the file I add the following.

machine [server] login [user] password [password]

The idea of the .netrc file is to allow FTPing without having to enter a user name and password.

So in your script you would put something similar...
example:

Code:

echo "cd /dropoff \n bin \n mput files* \n" | ftp -iv [server]

Hope that helps!