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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Having a hell of atime with KSH -ftp automation Post 302647857 by bakunin on Tuesday 29th of May 2012 03:27:15 AM
Old 05-29-2012
Sigh....

First off: ftp was then, but you shouldn't use it at all. It is insecure because it needs you to store the password in clear text, it transmits passwords/usernames in clear text (which is open to network sniffing) and it transmits all its data without encryption. In all the data centers i work(ed in the last 10 years) ftp and telnet is absolutely positively forbidden (as in: not even allowed to be installed, much less used).

Use ssh/scp to achieve your goal and several of your problems will be gone.

Second: "HOST" and "USER" are on most system/shell combinations special variables to the shell. Log in to your system from anew and issue set and you will probably notice lines similar to these among others:

Code:
HOST=some.hostname.com
...
USER=yourloginname

Overwriting these variables with values of your own is not a good idea.


Third: The reason why you get the funny error message is that your ksh resides not where you declare it to be found in the shebang:

Code:
#!/bin/ksh

means that the ksh you want the script to use can be found in /bin. If you issue a which ksh at the commandline you probably get something else, maybe

Code:
# which ksh
/usr/bin/ksh

or whatever. Replace the /bin/ksh in the first line of your script with what you get there. From then on it should be possible to call the script by just its name instead of explicitly invoking a shell with the scripts name as parameter.

I can't find out from here what the last error means, but correct all the others first and maybe it will be gone for good anyway. If not report back and we will investigate further.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
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times

times(1)                                                           User Commands                                                          times(1)

NAME

       times - shell built-in function to report time usages of the current shell

SYNOPSIS

   sh
       times

   ksh
       times

DESCRIPTION

   sh
       Print the accumulated user and system times for processes run from the shell.

   ksh
       Print the accumulated user and system times for the shell and for processes run from the shell.

       On this man page, ksh(1) commands that are preceded by one or two * (asterisks) are treated specially in the following ways:

       1.  Variable assignment lists preceding the command remain in effect when the command completes.

       2.  I/O redirections are processed after variable assignments.

       3.  Errors cause a script that contains them to abort.

       4.  Words,  following a command preceded by ** that are in the format of a variable assignment, are expanded with the same rules as a vari-
           able assignment. This means that tilde substitution is performed after the = sign and word splitting and file name generation  are  not
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ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE         |      ATTRIBUTE VALUE        |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability                 |SUNWcsu                      |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       ksh(1), sh(1), time(1), attributes(5)

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