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:
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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I doin a script in sh.
For example:
i have this code here whereby $5 is a text file. eg file.txt. I wanna rename it to file.txt.tmp. so i use this code below which is correct.
put $5 $5.tmp
But when the ftp transfer is complete i need to rename the file back to $5 which is file.txt.
How do... (2 Replies)
hi friends,
I writing a script to psot dataset to ceratin server.....while doing ftp I have to rename the file while which is in present server like
present :test server
filename data.097878.
ftp server: it sholu be renamed as data.097878.zip
thanks,
The thing is that while... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
I want to rename set of files in the remote server which iam unable to do . i can rename only one file
at a time . for example
ftp $REMOTESERVER
{
rename $NAME1 $NAME2
} is working
whereas
ftp $REMOTESERVER
{
rename $NAME1*.dat $NAME2*.data
} is not working ...... (4 Replies)
Hi
I have following list of files at a path:
01.AR.asset
01.AR.index
01.AR.asset.vf
01.AR.asset.xv
I want to rename all these files as follows:
73.AR.asset.Z
73.AR.index.Z
73.AR.asset.vf.Z
73.AR.asset.xv.Z
Can any body give me a single command to acheive the above results.
... (5 Replies)
How do i rename all the files using a script ?
My server create log files and save them with numbering behind the name. for e.g. daily_20080101.log.0001 and so on ... How do a script and crontab it to remove all the numbering? Please help thanks. (2 Replies)
Greetings,
I am very new to the UNIX shell scripting and would like to learn. However, I am currently stuck on how to process the below sample :
Filename : DOCabcdef24387987ab90d.xml
Pattern "DOC"+any character using and +".xml"
And i want to change the second part of that file (any... (20 Replies)
Hi all,
I wish to know about a simple concept of mv command in UNIX. Is moving a file to a different directory takes longer than renaming it in the same direcotry using the mv command?
The scenerio is that I have to transfer a file from one directory to a location which is regularly scanned... (3 Replies)
Hello All,
I am trying to connect to ftp server and get the files. Also i need to rename the file in other ftp dir.
rename method is not allowing me to rename the file in other dir. When i tried copy command by using net::FTP:FILE then perl says it is not installed.
Can some body help me to... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have a large series of directories and subdirectories with many jpgs in them. I need to do two things:
1. Create a copy of each jpg found within it's own subdirectory
2. Rename this copied jpg such that apple.jpg becomes apple_m.jpg
I have tried to run the following commands in... (1 Reply)
Hey all, I really need help with some homework I'm having on UNIX. This probably sounds stupid, but I'm being asked to move a file to a specific directory and rename it a specified name in one command. I know how to do it in more than one command, I just can't seem to figure it out using only one... (1 Reply)
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LEARN ABOUT PLAN9
con
CON(1) General Commands Manual CON(1)NAME
con, telnet, cu, rx, xms, xmr - remote login, execution, and XMODEM file transfer
SYNOPSIS
con [ -dCrvs ] [ -l [ remuser ] ] [ -c cmd ] [net!]machine
telnet [ -dCrn ] [net!]machine
cu number
rx [ -n ] [net!]machine [ command-word ... ]
xms file
xmr file
DESCRIPTION
Con connects to the computer whose network address is net!machine and logs in if possible. With no options, the account name used on the
remote system is the same as that on the local system. Standard input and output go to the local machine.
Options are:
-l with an argument causes remuser to be used as the account name on the remote system. Without an argument this option disables auto-
matic login and a normal login session ensues.
-C forces cooked mode, that is, local echo.
-c runs cmd as if it had been typed as a command from the escape mode. This is used by cu.
-v (verbose mode) causes information about connection attempts to be output to standard error. This can be useful when trying to debug
network connectivity.
-d causes debugging information to be output to standard error.
-r suppresses printing of any carriage return followed by a new line. This is useful since carriage return is a printable character in
Plan 9.
-s strips received characters to 7 bits to forestall misinterpretation of ASCII with parity as UTF.
The control- character is a local escape. It prompts with the local machine name and >>>. Legitimate responses to the prompt are
i Send a quit [sic] signal to the remote machine.
q Exit.
b Send a break.
. Return from the escape.
!cmd Run the command with the network connection as its standard input and standard output. Standard error will go to the screen. This
is useful for transmitting and receiving files over the connections using programs such as xms.
Telnet is similar to con, but uses the telnet protocol to communicate with the remote machine. If standard input is a file or a pipe, the
-n option causes telnet not to hang up the connection when it receives EOF on its standard input; instead it waits for the remote end to
hang up. It shares con's -C, -d, and -r options.
Cu is a shell script that uses telco(4) and con to connect to a machine via a modem. If the machine is equipped with a local modem, it is
used. Otherwise, the call is placed through Datakit.
Rx executes one shell command on the remote machine as if logged in there, but with local standard input and output. A rudimentary shell
environment is provided. If the target is a Plan 9 machine, $service there will be rx.
Network addresses for both con and rx have the form network!machine. Supported networks are those listed in /net.
The commands xms and xmr respectively send and receive a single file using the XMODEM protocol. They use standard input and standard out-
put for communication and are intended for use with con.
EXAMPLES
rx kremvax cat file1 >file2
Copy remote file1 to local file2.
rx kremvax cat file1 '>file2'
Copy remote file1 to remote file2.
eqn paper | rx kremvax troff -ms | rx deepthought lp
Parallel processing: do each stage of a pipeline on a different machine.
SOURCE
/sys/src/cmd/con
for con, xms, and xmr.
/sys/src/cmd/ip
for telnet.
/rc/bin/cu
BUGS
Under rx, a program that should behave specially towards terminals may not: e.g., remote shells will not prompt. Also under rx, the remote
standard error and standard output are combined and go inseparably to the local standard output.
CON(1)