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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers checking the status of file ftp Post 302200394 by fpmurphy on Thursday 29th of May 2008 06:19:43 AM
Old 05-29-2008
No exit status error codes are defined for ftp by any standard that I am aware of. Therefore you cannot safely use $? to check exit status for errors unless your specific version of ftp supports such exit status error codes.

You need to use expect or a similar TCL to script the ftp session if you want to be able to detect session errors.
 

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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). SIMPLEFTP(1)
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