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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to determine whether the FTP was successful or not Post 302364429 by cfajohnson on Friday 23rd of October 2009 03:39:50 AM
Old 10-23-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by julie_s
Hi,

In a shell script we issue a ftp command to transfer some files, so the shell script process invokes another FTP Process. The ftp session has started but due to some reason the ftp is broken, then how to determine in the script that the file transfer was not successful.
We can make a check after issuing the ftp command like this :

Code:
ftp bla bla
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
  echo "File transfer was not successful"
fi

The check for exit status cannot determine whether the file has reached the destination or not. How to determine this in the script.
Can any1 please suggest me how do I go about this?

The ftp command is intended for interactive use, and it doesn't work well in scripts.

For scripting, use the ncftp family of commands.

(Or, if possible, use ssh and scp.)
 

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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS

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 5.11							    22 Oct 2002 							    ftp(4)
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