hi,

I need a help. I used this command to list all the log files which are for more than 10 days to a text file.

find /usr/script_test -type f -mtime +10>>/usr/ftprm.txt

 
while read filename
do
          #ftp code goes here..
rm ${filename}
done < /usr/ftprm.txt

Thanks for the reply.

but its not working. am thinking how the ftp will know from which directory to take the files and ftp.

please find code which am using:

while read filename
do

ftp -i -n << EOF
open 192.168.1.75
user loguser PASSWORD
prompt
cd \logs_finacle
mput *.*
EOF
rm ${filename}
done < /usr/ftprm.txt

kamaldev,

itkamaraj has drawn you the skeleton of a solution. You will need to ftp one file at a time with the loop. If you test that the file has been delivered successfully, then you can remove it on the local server. If you try it how you have it at the moment, you will put every file every time you read a line from you input file, so one file will be put once (no worries there), but two will be put twice (hmmmm) or 10 files will be put ten times EACH. if the files are big then you could be thrashing things about repetitively quite a bit.

Do you really want to only put files with a dot in their name? From unix, an "mput *" is all that is required to state all files, but you are also sending every file with the mput so you may duplicate the FTP later on if you run the job again.

Capture the output from the FTP command and look for the success message in your script. The FTP command may still exit with return code zero (i.e. no error) even if the file fails to be written, because the error is remote and the FTP command itself works. If you schedule this with SFTP, then you would get a non-zero return code to test, but it depends on you having the SFTP client & server tools installed.


Something like this perhaps:-

while read filename
do
     ftp -i -n << EOF  > ftp_log.txt
        open 192.168.1.75
        user loguser PASSWORD
        prompt
        cd \logs_finacle
        put ${filename}
        EOF

     if [ `grep -c "^226 " ftp_log.txt` -eq 1 ]
     then
         rm ${filename}
     else
         echo "Failed to deliver file ${filename}"
         exit 99
     fi
done < /usr/ftprm.txt

Thanks robin.

Its more than my limit. I try to read more on your explanation.
am getting an syntax error on the line 3.

 
ftp -i -n << EOF > ftp_log.txt
 
error: ./ftprm.sh: 0403-057 Syntax error at line 3 : `<' is not matched.

It is difficult to tell what exactly is the error without seeing your code. By the way I see you are using a while loop to read file-name and opening FTP connection for each file. I suggest using an awk code to get all the file transferred in single connection:-

awk 'BEGIN {
 print "ftp -i -n << EOF"
 print "open 192.168.1.75"
 print "user loguser PASSWORD"
 print "prompt"
 print "cd \logs_finacle"
} {
 print "put "$0 
}
END {
 print "EOF"
}' /usr/ftprm.txt > ftp_batch

chmod +x ftp_batch

./ftp_batch

I think that the line:-

ftp -i -n << EOF  > ftp_log.txt

ftp -i -n <<-EOF  > ftp_log.txt