I will agree with sea that sftp would be better, but I assume that the target doesn't support it.
Could I suggest that you change the code to this to ensure that the credentials are not displayed for anyone to see with a ps -ef | grep ftp:-
Code:
ftp -nv $targethost << EOFTP >$logfile.$$
user $userid $password
cd $targetdirectory
get or put command here
quit
EOFTP
Long running FTP jobs can give far too much away to a curious user. We have our set so that every transfer has it's own set of credentials and target directory. That way if we need to change a password, then only one transfer is affected. It's a pain to stick to, but the impact of a required change makes it worthwhile.
Using $logfile.$$ also allows you to keep a history of FTP attempts in case you are re-running or have many processes that use the same basic script. You can read the log file looking for errors or success as required. make sure that you have a process to tidy them away later on.
Hello, I am a UNIX newbie and this is my first posting.
I need to create a batch command file to ftp from Sun/Solaris to AS/400.
Here is an example file:
ftp -d -i -n -v 172.28.16.22
pwd
ls
binary
quit
This is the result of executing the command file:
Connected to... (10 Replies)
I have a batch file that takes 2 parameters--source file location and target file location.
I want to create another batch file that contains all the commands with the file locations so that I dont have to enter the ifnromation every time individually.
For eg:
to execute command
com1.bat... (3 Replies)
Hi ,
I have a situation i need to write a while loop until the end of control file.In the control file i have a 5 lines which contains commands.how can i execute all with out waiting for the first one to complete.
Ex ControlFile:
ScripitName Test
ScriptName Test1
ScriptName Test2
... (1 Reply)
Hi there
I want to create a batch file which Get (mget) the newly added Files only, from specific directory on UNIX server to local folder on windows server through FTP, and this batch file will be scheduled to run daily to load the new files.
help me plz :confused: (1 Reply)
Hi there
I want to create a batch file which Get (mget) the newly added Files only from specific directory on UNIX server to specific folder on windows server using FTP, and this batch file will be scheduled on the windows server to run daily to load the new files (load the newly added files... (1 Reply)
Please help with this simple example. I can not figure out how to do it. A file named “job” contains only this one line:var=5I need a script to read the job file and execute it as a command. This is my attempt (it does not work):#!/bin/sh
exec < job
echo "var = $var"output should read “var = 5”... (5 Replies)
I am trying to automate an sftp command so that it does not stop and ask for the password each time
the calling shell script
#!/bin/ksh
sftp -b tst_1_batchfile.txt GLAXGBUPMPSOUT@204.90.134.116
the batchfile contents :
password XXXXXX
cd /GLAXGBUPMPSOUT/GSKENT/GLAXGF2FOPFF
put... (4 Replies)
I made a configuration file for my shell script in that all the values that the shell scipt needs, are defined, but I don't know how to let the shell script use those defined variables.
Thank you for your help :) (3 Replies)
Hello, we have a UNIX system the runs our business data.
We have 4 users that use a particular batch command file to extract data for use in the Windows side of the fence: (despreg.bat)
ftp
ftp> open danapak (database name)
connected to danapak
ftp> user ccsb
password ccsb
ftp>... (29 Replies)
I have a windows batch file to connect from Server A (Windows) to Server B (UNIX) via sftp to get a file. The script is as below:
sftpg3 -oStrictHostKeyChecking=no -oIdentityFile=EAPIINSTADM_hostnameA ftpeapsg@hostnameB
lcd D:\APPBASE\EAPSG\GEMSSG
get GENUOBGW1 /sftp/ftphrssg/HRSSG/EAPSG
exit... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: userguy
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LEARN ABOUT SUSE
simpleftp
SIMPLEFTP(1) InterNetNews Documentation SIMPLEFTP(1)NAME
simpleftp - Rudimentary FTP client
SYNOPSIS
simpleftp url [...]
DESCRIPTION
simpleftp is a Perl script that provides basic support for fetching files with FTP in a batch oriented fashion. It takes one or more FTP
URLs on the command line. The file(s) will be retrieved from the remote server and placed in the current directory with the same basename
as on the remote; e.g., <ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/CONFIG/active.gz> is stored as active.gz in the current directory.
The script properly understands usernames, passwords and ports specified as follows:
ftp://user:password@host:port/path/file
BUGS
simpleftp is an extremely poor substitute for more complete programs like the freely available wget or ncftp utilities. It was written
only to provide elementary support in INN for non-interactive fetching of the files in <ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/pgpcontrol/> or
<ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/CONFIG/> without requiring administrators to install yet another package. Its shortcomings as a general
purpose program are too numerous to mention, but one that stands out is that downloaded files by simpleftp override existing files with the
same name in the local directory.
HISTORY
Tossed off by David C Lawrence <tale@isc.org> for InterNetNews. Rewritten to use "Net::FTP" by Julien Elie.
$Id: simpleftp.pod 8357 2009-02-27 17:56:00Z iulius $
SEE ALSO actsync(8).
INN 2.5.2 2009-05-21 SIMPLEFTP(1)