Almost. You used FILE where you needed FR:

Code:

        for FR in *.ready 
          do FILE="${FR%.ready}" 
             [ -e "$FILE" ] || break # Avoids error
             echo "put ${FILE} $FTPDIR/${FILE}"

I also switched from ${var/expr/rep} to ${var%pattern} since the latter is in the standards and is accepted by more shells.

Depending on how solid your file creator is, you might also want to change the break to a continue. Or to do what I think Corona688 was trying to do, change that line to:

Code:

             [ -e "$FR" ] || continue # Avoids error

which catches the case where there are no matching files and FR will be set to the literal string *.ready. (But, there isn't likely to be a flle named * either, so this probably doesn't matter.)