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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting shell script - ftp downloading serveral files without mget Post 302345392 by chipcmc on Wednesday 19th of August 2009 06:29:26 AM
Old 08-19-2009
If this code that you put works for you:
Code:
ftp -n -i -v <<EOF
open proxyHost proxyPort      
user user@ftp_server password
      



/* now i want to  download all files in the root directory of the ftp but mget * does not work (does nothing... not even throwing an error message) */

bye
EOF

the equivalente in the function is:

Code:
function send_ftp
{
ftp -n -i -v > $2 <<EOF
open proxyHost proxyPort
user user@$HOST password
cd $dir_remote
$1
bye
EOF
}

Quote:
Originally Posted by macProgger23
don't know what $HOST> &2 in the ftp command really does???
&2 is not in my script, my script:
ftp -n -i -v $HOME> $2

HOME is a variable, and when you put $HOME the system change the string $HOME by the value, then :

ftp -n -i -v 10.10.10.10 > $2

here the character > is the redirection of the stdout for the ftp, $2 is the second parameter to call the function
If you look to the calls :
send_ftp "dir" $file_log
in this case $file_log is the second parameter in the call

if you don't wnat to use variables you can put the valors, i wrote the scrpt withc variables because i think is better.
 

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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS

ftp

ftp(4)								   File Formats 							    ftp(4)

NAME

       ftp - FTP client configuration file

SYNOPSIS

       /etc/default/ftp

DESCRIPTION

       Use  the ftp file to configure the behavior of the FTP client. Lines that begin with a hash symbol ("# ") are treated as comment  lines and
       are ignored.

   Behavior Directives
       The ftp file supports the following behavior directives:

       FTP_LS_SENDS_NLST=yes | no

	   The ls command of the ftp client sends an NLST to the FTP Server by default. Several non-Solaris clients send LIST instead. In order to
	   make the Solaris ftp client send LIST when the ls command is issued, set FTP_LS_SENDS_NLST to no. The value of FTP_LS_SENDS_NLST is yes
	   by default.

       If the user sets a value for FTP_LS_SENDS_NLST in the user's environment, this value will override any FTP_LS_SENDS_NLST directive that	is
       specified in /etc/default/ftp.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5)  for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWbipr			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       ftp(1), attributes(5)

SunOS 5.10							    22 Oct 2002 							    ftp(4)
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