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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to execute a batch file containing ftp commands?? Post 302864875 by sea on Thursday 17th of October 2013 09:46:17 AM
Old 10-17-2013
Just asking, why would you prefer ftp while sftp provides more functionality?

As afaik ftp doesnt support 'batchfile processing', on linux at least.
In which case i'd use:
Code:
ftp user@domain > output << EOF
ls
bye
EOF

Hope this helps
Last edited by sea; 10-17-2013 at 10:57 AM.. Reason: NOTE redirection might not work, lack of experience/need.
 

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UUID_COMPARE(3) 						    Libuuid API 						   UUID_COMPARE(3)

NAME

       uuid_compare - compare whether two UUIDs are the same

SYNOPSIS

       #include <uuid.h>

       int uuid_compare(uuid_t uu1, uuid_t uu2)

DESCRIPTION

       The uuid_compare function compares the two supplied uuid variables uu1 and uu2 to each other.

RETURN VALUE

       Returns	an  integer less than, equal to, or greater than zero if uu1 is found,	respectively, to be lexicographically less than, equal, or
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AUTHOR

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AVAILABILITY

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SEE ALSO

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