Dear All,

I have to download files from FTP server every monday. Presently i am downloading manually. I am thinking to put this into cron jobs.

I am new in shell. Please advise to tune this script effectively.

Also could anyone explain to add this into cron jobs...

I have to download four folders. Each folders contain more than 200 files size of around 500 MB. Once download is over, that files to be replaced into our local server.

This is my script...

#!/bin/bash -vx
ftp -in 10.41.141.14<<END_SCRIPT
quote USER abc
quote PASS xxxx
bin
prompt off
cd /csi/endeca_chrome/dgraph_input -- this folder contains files...
lcd /space/endeca_chrome/endeca/files/data/dgraph_input/mirror0/partition0/ -- this location is local directory for file replace...
mget *
bye
END_SCRIPT

As regards getting your script into crontab - log in as the user who needs to run the script and type crontab -e.
This will open 'your' crontab in VI. consult man crontab for the format you have to use to define when your script is to be invoked by cron. You can define seconds, minutes, hours, days, days of month etc etc.
Each username has their own crontab - running crontab -e allows your to edit your own one.

Hey,

still i am not run the script using cron tab. Before i want the confrimation my script is correct or not?

i am new for scriptring...

I can download using mget in command line from ftp. But It's take long time to download compare than manual download using tools.

my crontab entries to be 00 3 * * 1 -- every monday morning 3 am my script will execute.

Please advise...

Thanks,