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Old 09-06-2014
Junk character appearing after downloading the file from windows server

Hello,

Im downloading the file from windows server through FTP, the downloaded file is containing some junk character at very start of the file as below and causing my whole script is to fail,
how to download without junk or how to remove these before processing it?
Code:
▒▒"nmdbfnmdsfsdf"
       nmdsbnmfmdsf
        nmsbmfdsbnmfbds
nmbdsnmfbsnmdbfnmds
        sdmnbfnmbdsf

...
...

Im using the below code to download the file

Code:
get_file ()
{
ftp -vn 10.430.21.10 21 <<EOF
user "138" "abcd@9197"
pass
bi
cd /PVR
get testfile
bye
EOF
}


Last edited by Scrutinizer; 09-06-2014 at 07:31 AM..
 

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BGOFFICE-DICT-DOWNLOAD(1)				User Contributed Perl Documentation				 BGOFFICE-DICT-DOWNLOAD(1)

NAME
bgoffice-dict-download - download dictionaries for bgoffice SYNOPSIS
# list known dictionaries bgoffice-dict-download --list # download a dictionary bgoffice-dict-download --dict bg-en_dual # explicit output file bgoffice-dict-download --dict bg-en_dual --output=/some/where.tar.bz2 DESCRIPTION
bgoffice-dict-download is a small program to help download bgoffice dictionaries off sourceforge.net. It browses the bgoffice project download area and follows the download links. The dictionary is downloaded in the current directory, unless the "--output" option is used. OPTIONS
--list Prints the list of the known dictionaries. --dict dictionary name Specifies the dictionary to be downloaded. See "--list" for the known dictionaries. This option is mandatory, unless "--list" is given. --output file Saves the downloaded dictionary in the given file, instead of ./<dict>.tar.bz2 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright: (C) 2010 Damyan Ivanov dmn@debian.org Permission is granted to use this work, with or without modifications, provided that this notice is retained. If we meet some day, and you think this stuff is worth it, you can buy me a beer in return. perl v5.14.2 2010-12-16 BGOFFICE-DICT-DOWNLOAD(1)
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