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Hi, could anyone please tell me how can i write an interactive script so that i can connect to an FTP and pass the username and password when prompted.
i thought of using expect. but its not installed on my system and i got the following error msg when i tried uncompress the .tar.z file after downloading:
insize:489 posbits:0 inbuf:00 F1 69 5C 9F (0)
uncompress: corrupt input.

i there any way tht i can store the usid n psswd in a file and use tht to pass the parameters to the script?
i am workin on TC shell.

Read the ftp man page; pay special attention to the section on the .netrc file.

Don't use tcsh for scripting.

http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/CshTop10.txt
http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Csh.html#uh-0
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/

Here is a script that I use sometimes. You can comment/remove some of the options such as the log or debug...

cat goftp2

#!/bin/sh
#set -v
echo NOTE: check ftplog for connection info
DATE=`date`
echo Current time is $DATE
rm ftplog
date >>ftplog

HOST='192.168.0.01 5021'
USER='user01'
PASSWD='user01'
#FILE='/home/user01/file.txt'

ftp -v -n $HOST >>/home/user01/ftplog 2>&1 <<EOJ
quote USER $USER
quote PASS $PASSWD
debug
pwd
passive
mput aaa*
ls
close
bye
DATE=`date`
echo Current time is $DATE
EOJ
exit 0

Hello Guys ..

I am new to Unix . can anyone help me in ftp scripts

i need to connect to a server get an object and put the object in the different server

The issue is it has to prompt from which server it has to get .. and which unix box it needs to put ..

can anyone help me on this .. please help me on this

Thanks!!