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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Problem with ftp- how to check if the remote directory exists.? Post 302400022 by anijan on Tuesday 2nd of March 2010 05:11:18 AM
Old 03-02-2010
Problem with ftp- how to check if the remote directory exists.?

I am trying to initiate a ftp session from my shell script in the following way.
In my script, as per my requirements i am writing the required ftp commands to a file and then I am using this file to carry out the ftp process.


for example
temp.txt will contain

cd /home/user/mydir
append local.txt remote.txt


and then i am using the below command in my script to initiate the ftp.

cat test.txt | ftp -i $machine 2>$errname

The problem here is if the directory /home/user/mydir does not exist in the remote server then the file local.txt is appended to the file in /home/user (default directory pointed by the remote server)
Please suggest if there are any ways to check if the directory is present in the remote server before appending the file.
 

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