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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting bash script for ftp-upload is not working Post 302485631 by dufftime on Wednesday 5th of January 2011 06:52:32 PM
Old 01-05-2011
Your code worked for me
I copy/pasted your code snippet into a new bash script, changed the username, password, testfile, and FTP server, then it ran just fine.

Try changing the first line to:
Code:
#!/bin/bash -xv

You can get a better idea of where it's failing.

You can't put a "sleep" between the "<<EOD" and "EOD" since FTP doesn't understand that command.

If you're missing bytes, you probably need to issue a "bin" (binary) command prior to your "put", otherwise the end-of-line character can get affected. FTP transfers over ASCII mode by default.

Code:
#!/bin/bash
USER='xxx'
PASSWD='xxx'

ftp -n <<EOD
open xxx
quote USER $USER
quote PASS $PASSWD
bin
put /path/to/test.pdf
quit
EOD
exit 0

Also, the FTP "put" command with a single argument implies the location of the local file is the same as the remote file, so if you do this:

Code:
put /path/to/file.txt

You are telling FTP to upload the local file /path/to/file.txt to the FTP's remote directory /path/to/, which may not exist. Perhaps you mean to do this:

Code:
put /path/to/file.txt file.txt

-dufftime
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shells

shells(4)							   File Formats 							 shells(4)

NAME

       shells - shell database

SYNOPSIS

       /etc/shells

DESCRIPTION

       The shells file contains a list of the shells on the system. Applications use this file to determine whether a shell is valid. See getuser-
       shell(3C). For each shell a single line should be present, consisting of the shell's path, relative to root.

       A hash mark (#) indicates the beginning of a comment; subsequent characters up to the end of the line are not interpreted by  the  routines
       which search the file. Blank lines are also ignored.

       The following default shells are used by utilities: /bin/bash, /bin/csh, /bin/jsh, /bin/ksh, /bin/ksh93, /bin/pfcsh, /bin/pfksh, /bin/pfsh,
       /bin/sh, /bin/tcsh, /bin/zsh, /sbin/jsh, /sbin/sh, /usr/bin/bash, /usr/bin/csh, /usr/bin/jsh, /usr/bin/ksh, /usr/bin/ksh93, /usr/bin/pfcsh,
       /usr/bin/pfksh, /usr/bin/pfsh, and /usr/bin/sh, /usr/bin/tcsh, /usr/bin/zsh, and /usr/sfw/bin/zsh. /etc/shells overrides the default list.

       Invalid shells in /etc/shells could cause unexpected behavior, such as being unable to log in by way of ftp(1).

FILES

       /etc/shells    list of shells on system

SEE ALSO

       vipw(1B), ftpd(1M), sendmail(1M), getusershell(3C), aliases(4)

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