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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Automated FTP Post 22859 by S.P.Prasad on Wednesday 12th of June 2002 01:26:33 AM
Old 06-12-2002
This could be one of the solution for estimating accurately as to whether a file has been successfully transfered or not via a ftp session, as requested by "psingh".

Following is the script that can do so :

Create and store following details in a separate file
vi ftpdata
Enter the following details
o "Address"
user "username" "password"
get file1
Save and quit from the file

Now in a separate shell script file write the following command:
ftp -v < ftpdata > ftpdata.out 2> ftpdata.out
Now check for the following string in the ftpdata.out file by the grep command:
"Transfer Complete" or "Tansfer Successful"
Presence of it would hence mean that the transfer was success else was a complete failure.

Now using this technique one can easily design in new of transfering multiple files via ftp session and know accurately whether the file was successfully transfered or not.
 

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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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