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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers FTP rename command help Post 302974385 by jim mcnamara on Sunday 29th of May 2016 11:09:16 PM
Old 05-30-2016
I suspect the difference arises from the remote ftp code's rename command being implemented two different ways on the remote servers:

system 1
call the equivalent of C:
Code:
system ("mv oldfilename newfilename")

This would mean invoking the /bin/sh shell on the remote machine, which in turn would see a '#' character as a comment, which requires your escape "\" fix.

system 2
call the mv syscall or the C standard library's rename library call - this never invokes /bin/sh so no shell is called.

Note: /bin/sh can be a completely different object on different machines - it is NOT necessarily the shell that you use to run the ftp script locally.
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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS

ftp

ftp(4)								   File Formats 							    ftp(4)

NAME

       ftp - FTP client configuration file

SYNOPSIS

       /etc/default/ftp

DESCRIPTION

       Use  the ftp file to configure the behavior of the FTP client. Lines that begin with a hash symbol ("# ") are treated as comment  lines and
       are ignored.

   Behavior Directives
       The ftp file supports the following behavior directives:

       FTP_LS_SENDS_NLST=yes | no    The ls command of the ftp client sends an NLST to the FTP Server by default. Several non-Solaris clients send
				     LIST  instead.  In  order	to  make  the  Solaris	ftp  client  send  LIST when the ls command is issued, set
				     FTP_LS_SENDS_NLST to no. The value of FTP_LS_SENDS_NLST is yes by default.

       If the user sets a value for FTP_LS_SENDS_NLST in the user's environment, this value will override any FTP_LS_SENDS_NLST directive that	is
       specified in /etc/default/ftp.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5)  for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWbipr			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       ftp(1), attributes(5)

SunOS 5.11							    22 Oct 2002 							    ftp(4)
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