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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Need of shell script to download data using ftp Post 302750031 by Corona688 on Sunday 30th of December 2012 03:47:38 PM
Old 12-30-2012
That is a useless use of cat and useless use of awk, the read builtin does not need cat's help to read files, does not need awk's help to split tokens, and does not need an entire subshell to do a loop.

The -r is to prevent read from doing things if someone has a backslash in their password.

Also, many systems do not have echo -e, I suggest a here-document instead, which should work anywhere.

Code:
while read -r server file user pass
do
        ftp -niv $server <<EOF
user $user $pass
binary
passive
get $file
bye
EOF
done < $1

 

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$u1 = URI::URL->new($str, $base); $u2 = $u1->abs; DESCRIPTION
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