What Operating System are you issuing the ftp command on?
What Operating System are you connecting to (if known)?
What (in words not code) are you trying to do?
Brainspark!
Is the remote computer addressed by a URL (like a website) or a computer with a normal unix hostname? If it's not a URL, you do not want the "-u" switch to FTP because it is expecting a URL (eg: ftp://remotehost.com) not a computer hostname. In your case it is taking the character "n" after the "-u" as the URL !
There are probably other issues in the script with using "quote" for no apparent reason but you might be connecting to a non-unix system.
Footnote: Can you do the file transfer successfully from the command prompt? If you can, please post the sequence you type and it can no doubt be scripted.
Last edited by methyl; 03-06-2010 at 08:47 AM..
Reason: Footnote
I am trying to ftp some files from a certain directory, but i got an invalid command. does anybody know why i got this error?
ftp -v -i -n <<SCRIPT
open servername
user
username password
cd /server/logs
for file in MCWAS*
do
put ${file} /home/test/${file}
done
bye
SCRIPT (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have to ftp to a remote machine.
i have got the Ip, username and password and the file path..
I need to get the file name with out user intervention in my script..
is there any way to do this..
please help
esham (2 Replies)
Hi ,,
I am wrting a shell script to ftp a file from remote server but its giving some problem to me.can you help me in debugging this.
#!/usr/bin/ksh
HOST="some ip"
user="user_name"
passwd="password"
ftp -n $HOST >>END_SCRIPT
USER $user
$passwd
binary
prompt
get... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I need to upload a file via ftp. I have given :
ftp -n $HOST <<END
quote user $USER
quote pass $PASSWD
prompt off
put bus.txt
quit
END
Its throwing a syntax error at "<<" symbol. What should be done for this ?? (2 Replies)
Can I ftp to put file with shell script(as bath file) ?
Plz give the simple code to do that.
My script look like that
#!/bin/sh
echo "Start ftp"
ftp temphost <<EOF
put file
quit
EOF
# end
This code ignore username & password but I need to input.
How to input username &... (8 Replies)
HI ALL
i am writing a shell script in which i have to use FTP command like.
FTP <ip address>
cd xyz
mget*
bye
but i am not able to perform any command from shell script.
once the control goes to FTP, i again have to type all the things.
i just want my shell script to take care of the... (8 Replies)
So i Administer multiple ftp servers that run on dynamic IP's as well as user and password settings are changed by other people constantly. What i need to do is ensure that an FTP is server is up on the IP i check. As well as the login credentials work.
Here is a simple script i wrote. However... (2 Replies)
Dear All,
I am using FTP in a script. But when i exit from the FTP session, the commands written after EOF don't get executed.
i.e.
ftp <<EOF
quote $login
quote $password
cd /tmp
mget *somefile*
bye
EOF
echo $some_variable
#This last echo command or whatever piece of commands i... (10 Replies)
Hello Brothers,
I am new in shell script.I need a shell script that will run in Linux Server. Script will connect to windows FTP server before connection script will check the connection from linux server to windows server, if connection is ok then show a message and get specific file and... (34 Replies)
Discussion started by: maruf
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shell-quote
SHELL-QUOTE(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation SHELL-QUOTE(1)NAME
shell-quote - quote arguments for safe use, unmodified in a shell command
SYNOPSIS
shell-quote [switch]... arg...
DESCRIPTION
shell-quote lets you pass arbitrary strings through the shell so that they won't be changed by the shell. This lets you process commands
or files with embedded white space or shell globbing characters safely. Here are a few examples.
EXAMPLES
ssh preserving args
When running a remote command with ssh, ssh doesn't preserve the separate arguments it receives. It just joins them with spaces and
passes them to "$SHELL -c". This doesn't work as intended:
ssh host touch 'hi there' # fails
It creates 2 files, hi and there. Instead, do this:
cmd=`shell-quote touch 'hi there'`
ssh host "$cmd"
This gives you just 1 file, hi there.
process find output
It's not ordinarily possible to process an arbitrary list of files output by find with a shell script. Anything you put in $IFS to
split up the output could legitimately be in a file's name. Here's how you can do it using shell-quote:
eval set -- `find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 shell-quote --`
debug shell scripts
shell-quote is better than echo for debugging shell scripts.
debug() {
[ -z "$debug" ] || shell-quote "debug:" "$@"
}
With echo you can't tell the difference between "debug 'foo bar'" and "debug foo bar", but with shell-quote you can.
save a command for later
shell-quote can be used to build up a shell command to run later. Say you want the user to be able to give you switches for a command
you're going to run. If you don't want the switches to be re-evaluated by the shell (which is usually a good idea, else there are
things the user can't pass through), you can do something like this:
user_switches=
while [ $# != 0 ]
do
case x$1 in
x--pass-through)
[ $# -gt 1 ] || die "need an argument for $1"
user_switches="$user_switches "`shell-quote -- "$2"`
shift;;
# process other switches
esac
shift
done
# later
eval "shell-quote some-command $user_switches my args"
OPTIONS --debug
Turn debugging on.
--help
Show the usage message and die.
--version
Show the version number and exit.
AVAILABILITY
The code is licensed under the GNU GPL. Check http://www.argon.org/~roderick/ or CPAN for updated versions.
AUTHOR
Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
perl v5.16.3 2010-06-11 SHELL-QUOTE(1)