Hey Everyone,

Can someone please help me with my problem.

I am writing a FTP Shell Script but I want it to convert the file I created to binary before the FTP is executed.

Notice I already have 'binary' in the script. I have tried setting the parameter to binary but my problem is that when the script is executed and the file is sent to my server just fine but the file is still in ASCII mode when I type the 'file test.txt' command.

Does anyone know how to transfer files in binary mode?

Here is my simple script:

#!/bin/sh

filename="file.txt"
hostname="####.com"
username="me"
password="1234"

ftp -un $hostname <<EOF
quote USER $username
quote PASS $password

binary
put $filename
quit
EOF


Thanks