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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Sending Mass mails Post 101652 by RTM on Friday 10th of March 2006 02:03:10 PM

03-10-2006

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I am supposed to write a script that will ftp a file which is a .csv and conatins the following:
Mail-id Path of file
abc@xyz.com D:\xyz\abc.htm
ash@sde.com D:\xyz\ash.htm

a)I need to FTP this file to my local machine.
b)Then read through each line of the file to get the file location of individual files.
c)Then FTP those individually to local.
d)Then send these files eg abc.htm as an attachment to abc@xyz.com
and ash.htm to ash@sde.com

You state it's a csv file - yet the information you show (contains the following) doesn't have commas separating the fields.

a) see Automate FTP / Scripting FTP transfers
b) see For loops within ftp commands - you will be combining the two scripts or calling (a) from (b).
c) This is taken into consideration in b).
d) see Sending mail attachments

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Also wanted to know if sending mails from unix to others as in rediff.com or gmail.com..does this require a mail server like MS exchange server to be present on the local machine.

Not exactly. Try sending mail from that server now - does it work? If it does, then nothing more is needed. If not, then post the OS and version and check to see if you have sendmail installed. Normally you don't need to have it running to send the email - it will start and attempt to send when you 'write' the email.

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simpleftp

SIMPLEFTP(1)						      General Commands Manual						      SIMPLEFTP(1)

NAME

       simpleftp - rudimentary ftp client

SYNOPSIS

       simpleftp ftp://...  [ ... ]

DESCRIPTION

       simpleftp  is  a perl script that provides basic support for fetching files with FTP in a batch oriented fashion.  It takes one or more ftp
       URLS on the command line.  The file(s) will be retrieved from the remote server and placed in the current directory with the same  basename
       as on the remote; i.e., ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/CONFIG/active.gz is stored as active.gz in the current directory.

BUGS

       simpleftp  is  an  extremely  poor substitute for more complete programs like the freely available wget or ncftp utilities.  It was written
       only to provide elementary support in INN for non-interactive fetching of the files in ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/CONFIG/ without requir-
       ing administrators to install yet another package.  Its shortcomings as a general purpose program are too numerous to mention, but one that
       stands out is that simpleftp does not understand the complete syntax of URLs, only the hostname and pathname parts -- it  will  not  under-
       stand username, password, port or parameter strings.

HISTORY

       Tossed off by David C Lawrence <tale@isc.org> for InterNetNews.

SEE ALSO

       actsync(8).

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