Originally posted by Perderabo I need to do a lot of automated ftp jobs myself. I have tried several versions of this and have finally settled on a style of script that I like. I found that using a .netrc file to automate the logging-in process kept painting me into a corner because different scripts needed to sign in as different users. So I avoid .netrc and force the script to sign in. I don't like to allocate pty's unless I really am forced into it, so I also avoid pty based tools like expect. I really like ksh so that was my tool of choice. And I like the co-process concept because it makes feeding commands into the ftp process so easy with "print -p". The only problem is that the co-process manipulates standard-out so as to make it available to "read -p". And it's too hard to know how many "read -p" I will need. So I send the output to a different file descriptor. Putting it all together:
That script will tranfer the file and the output of the script will be the output from the ftp job itself. Put the script into cron and save the output so you can look at it the next morning.
Hi:
I tried your script .. somehow it doesnt work with SFTP it still asks for password......
#!/usr/bin/ksh
exec 4>&1
sftp user@host >&4 2>&4 |&
print -p cd outgoing
print -p put test1
wait
exit 0
~
If I wanted a machine to put a specific file onto another OS far across the internet via FTP - and I wanted to do it automatically not user intervented, how would I do that?
Use the PUT command?
The file name and position never changes, it gets overwritten and the system on the other end... (6 Replies)
How can an automated script be setup to run at a later time in the day. cron runs recurring tasks. I am interested in a one time process.
I want to back up a number of files whenever I make changes to an application and ftp for backup purposes. The script to automate the zipping of files has... (1 Reply)
I have seen the script posted yesterday for automated ftp
Can we do some thing like ftp ing multiple files in one script
Example input.txt has all files names to be ftped
input.txt ------
a.tar
b.ccp
c.perl
i need to ftp all the files present in input.txt
i tried something like... (0 Replies)
Hi
I am trying to delete some specific files ( files other than created today) from the server on a cron basis. I wrote a small script, but I am stuck up in how to delete only specific files.
#!/usr/bin/expect -f
set IP
set timeout -1
spawn ftp $IP
expect ):
send "username\n"... (10 Replies)
Automated FTP.
hint : use 'atd' to schedule to run a specific script.
An Env Variable should be created,say CONF_DIR which points to some dir.
@ some time, create a TAR file of this and FTP it to some server. (3 Replies)
I want to do Automated FTP from linux client to LINUX server using a shell script after every one hour. And copies last most updated file from Linux server.
OR
You can say that whenever files get modified on LINUX server so it also copies on my LINUX client.
Linux SERVER path=... (4 Replies)
Hi all,
I'm using the following script to automated ftp files to 1 ftp servers
host=192.168.0.1
/usr/bin/ftp -vi >> $bkplog 2>&1 <<ftp
open $host
bin
cd ${directory}
put $files
quit
ftp
and the .netrc file contain
machine 192.168.0.1
login abc... (4 Replies)
Hello,I just know the basics of scripting & I need a script to automate ftp since I use it quite often.
I use ftp to transfer different kind of files and everytime the source & the destination directories are different for transferring files, so can anyone help me out on this urgently.. (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: mohit_02mar
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LEARN ABOUT SUSE
netrc
NETRC(5) BSD File Formats Manual NETRC(5)NAME
netrc -- user configuration for ftp
SYNOPSIS
~/.netrc
DESCRIPTION
This file contains configuration and autologin information for the File Transfer Protocol client ftp(1).
The .netrc file contains login and initialization information used by the auto-login process. It resides in the user's home directory. The
following tokens are recognized; they may be separated by spaces, tabs, or new-lines:
machine name
Identify a remote machine name. The auto-login process searches the .netrc file for a machine token that matches the remote
machine specified on the ftp command line or as an open command argument. Once a match is made, the subsequent .netrc tokens are
processed, stopping when the end of file is reached or another machine or a default token is encountered.
default This is the same as machine name except that default matches any name. There can be only one default token, and it must be after
all machine tokens. This is normally used as:
default login anonymous password user@site
thereby giving the user automatic anonymous ftp login to machines not specified in .netrc. This can be overridden by using the -n
flag to disable auto-login.
login name
Identify a user on the remote machine. If this token is present, the auto-login process will initiate a login using the specified
name.
password string
Supply a password. If this token is present, the auto-login process will supply the specified string if the remote server requires
a password as part of the login process. Note that if this token is present in the .netrc file for any user other than anonymous,
ftp will abort the auto-login process if the .netrc is readable by anyone besides the user.
account string
Supply an additional account password. If this token is present, the auto-login process will supply the specified string if the
remote server requires an additional account password, or the auto-login process will initiate an ACCT command if it does not.
macdef name
Define a macro. This token functions like the ftp macdef command functions. A macro is defined with the specified name; its con-
tents begin with the next .netrc line and continue until a null line (consecutive new-line characters) is encountered. If a macro
named init is defined, it is automatically executed as the last step in the auto-login process.
SEE ALSO ftp(1), ftpd(8)Linux NetKit (0.17) September 23, 1997 Linux NetKit (0.17)