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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting problem with ftp mget Post 302405617 by methyl on Friday 19th of March 2010 09:41:53 AM
Old 03-19-2010
Quote:
ftpfile=/home/anitha/ftptxt
echo cd mydir >>$ftpfile
echo mget *.* >>$ftpfile
cat $ftpfile | ftp -i server2
When run from shell the *.* is being expanded by the shell in server1 to a list of filenames from the current directory.

To prove this, try a single line shell script. This does not work from the command line - it must be in a shell script.
Code:
echo mget *.*

Note that it only lists those files which contain a "." in their name.


We need to protect the asterisks from the shell by quoting them.
Code:
ftpfile=/home/anitha/ftptxt
echo cd mydir >>$ftpfile
echo mget '*.*' >>$ftpfile
cat $ftpfile | ftp -i server2

By the way this is unix not MSDOS. The "." is not significant in filenames though there is a convention to use it to mean filetype. Unless you want to only transfer files containing a "." in their name we would use "*" rather than "*.*".
Last edited by methyl; 03-19-2010 at 10:46 AM.. Reason: layout
 

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YPINIT(8)						    BSD System Manager's Manual 						 YPINIT(8)

NAME

     ypinit -- initialize NIS subsystem

SYNOPSIS

     ypinit -c [domainname] [-l server1,...,serverN]
     ypinit -m [domainname] [-l server1,...,serverN]
     ypinit -s master_server [domainname] [-l server1,...,serverN]

DESCRIPTION

     ypinit initializes the files and directories that are required for a NIS client or server.

     If domainname isn't specified, the default domain (as returned by domainname(1)) is used.

     The following options are available:

     -c      Create a NIS client.  Initializes /var/yp/binding/<domain>.ypservers to contain a list of ypservers for ypbind(8) to connect to.

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	     Set the list of client servers from the command line rather than prompting for them interactively.  The format is a comma separated
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