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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting FTP exit and error codes Post 302906804 by dhruuv369 on Monday 23rd of June 2014 03:29:46 PM
Old 06-23-2014
FTP exit and error codes

I have a script which connects to a remote server via FTP and gets some file from there.

Code:
#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/ftp -n remote.hostname.com <<EOF
quote USER user123
quote PASS password123
lcd /dir1/dir2/dir3
cd /
mget file_pattern*
close
bye
EOF

rc=$?
            if [[ $rc != 0 ]]
            then
            echo "Error occured getting the files...$rc" `date "+%Y-%m-%d-%H.%M.%S"`
            exit 1
else
  echo "Successful transfer of the files...$rc" `date "+%Y-%m-%d-%H.%M.%S"`
fi

When the files with the mentioned patterns are not available on the server, the script should echo the failure message and exit the script with error code 1, else it should download the files and echo the successful transfer message. However, in my case, it is always returning the successful transfer message even if there are no files on the server with that name. Any suggestions on what needs to be changed?
 

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SIMPLEFTP(1)						      General Commands Manual						      SIMPLEFTP(1)

NAME
simpleftp - rudimentary ftp client SYNOPSIS
simpleftp ftp://... [ ... ] 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; i.e., ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/CONFIG/active.gz is stored as active.gz in the current directory. 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/usenet/CONFIG/ without requir- ing 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 simpleftp does not understand the complete syntax of URLs, only the hostname and pathname parts -- it will not under- stand username, password, port or parameter strings. HISTORY
Tossed off by David C Lawrence <tale@isc.org> for InterNetNews. SEE ALSO
actsync(8). SIMPLEFTP(1)
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