here document not working

JamesByars · #1 (**permalink**) 01-15-2008

I tried doing

Code:

ftp myhost <<HERE
username
password
quit
HERE

but it doesnt work. Why?

When I do ftp host, I always get prompted for username, and once I type that in I get prompted for password. But when I try doing it from here document it freezes.

reborg · #2 (**permalink**) 01-15-2008

Have you tried searching? There are hundreds of similar threads on automating ftp.

JamesByars · #3 (**permalink**) 01-15-2008

hi reborg,

yes, I did actually search this forum and found a good answer (using ftp -i -n), so I have managed to get around this. But I am still curious as to why what I did initially did not work. I thought a here document sends input line by line to the command, so I would have expected it to work.

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