Hey all,

Does anyone know if Unix has an equivalent to a batch file? And if so, does it work the same way as a batch file under windows?

AND, if you can answer that one, is it possible to run such a file under HP-UX and have it execute while in an FTP command line? What I need to do is backup some data onto an NT server from the HP-UX setup in a routine matter and I was wondering if I could nearly automate the process. Any help would be appreciated.

ober5861

Hi, ober

You can write a simple shell script to automate an ftp process, similar to a win batch file. Check out Heiner's Shelldorado at http://oase-shareware.org/shell/ for scripting resources. The ftp man page on your system will help, too.

To schedule the ftp process, you can make an entry in your crontab. (man cron or man crontab).

Thanks a bunch! I'm not the best at writing shell scripts at this point, but I guess there's no better time to start, right?

if you want ftp to be done automatically, here is a file called ".netrc" (see man page .netrc)

However, there is a security risk to run this one since password(s) will be on this file;
make sure to delete this file after runing your cron job(s) or shell script(s).
Hope this help

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This is a typical "batch" ftp script we run all the time:

#!/usr/bin/ksh

## put server name or IP address of FTP server
## provide username & password for the ftp server
## cd to whatever directory you want to put files to or get files from
## issue get or put commands -
## Anything you can do on a command line can be inside this script
ftp -n -v ipaddress <<-ENDTAG
user username password
cd dir
get file1
prompt
mget filepattern*
ENDTAG