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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help with Shell script for FTP Post 302400456 by TinWalrus on Wednesday 3rd of March 2010 08:26:30 AM
Old 03-03-2010
i think ftp works fine within a script, i use it all the time (if scp is not available).

if you are going to use mput, you will also need to put 'prompt' in the ftp section to turn off prompting

and methyl suggested, good to open ftp by itself (which is what the script does), do the same steps the script is

enter 'ftp'
enter 'open whatever_the_host_is'
enter 'user root whatever_password_is'

see what happens. setting up another user for the ftp account isnt a bad idea either
 

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LEARN ABOUT REDHAT

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).

																      SIMPLEFTP(1)
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