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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Not to Escape Backslash in script Post 302997228 by Thala on Wednesday 10th of May 2017 02:13:51 AM
Old 05-10-2017
Not to Escape Backslash in script
Hello Folks,
I am looking for a bash script which check the ftp server connection status and transfer success/failure also final stage is like if the transfer/connection failed, i should get an email.

First stage - checking for login success or not



Code:
#!/bin/bash
HOST='your.ftp.site'
USER=apac\remoteusername'
PASSWD='remotepasswd'

ftp -n -v $HOST << EOT
ascii
user $USER $PASSWD
prompt
cd upload
ls -la
bye
EOT


But this escapes the '\' in $USER and consider it as apacremoteusername


Kindly help me how to accept '\' for user command? Or any other command which accepts '\'


Thanks in Advance
 

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