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Originally Posted by Perderabo

I am dismayed to learn that my scripts may be in violation of the ftp standards. What specification forbids automated ftp? I musta missed that as I read the rfc's...

Sorry, if i was a little harsh yesterday (haven't had the best of days), but the main point remains: ftp is a program built for interactive transmission of files. There are other programs built for batch transmission of files, which are a lot easier (and more reliable) to script and are overall better suited for the task.

Nobody and nothing "forbids" using a tool for something it was not designed for (this was what I meant by "outside its specification"), only judgement and common sense. Since you like RFCs here's a quote from RFC1925: "With sufficient thrust pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea." With sufficient effort nearly any tool can be brought to do anything - the question is not so much one of being possible, but one of being feasible.

If you use http to transmit files you could use http-get to automate the process. I don't have too much experience with this tool and hence wouldn't recommend it, but from what i know it should do the job.

If you do not like the r-commands (what I can understand, btw., security isn't an issue with them and setting up a kerberos-domain for their k-ized variants is still no fun in 2005) then maybe scp is a solution for you. It is implemented with little effort, works more ore less the same like rcp from outside, with a secure transmission engine inside and the only thing you have to do is to make sure you've got a valid ticket.

Sorry again if i have stepped on anybodies toes with my last point and a special apology to Perderabo whose posts i always enjoy to read.

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simpleftp

SIMPLEFTP(1)						      General Commands Manual						      SIMPLEFTP(1)

NAME

       simpleftp - rudimentary ftp client

SYNOPSIS

       simpleftp ftp://...  [ ... ]

DESCRIPTION

       simpleftp  is  a perl script that provides basic support for fetching files with FTP in a batch oriented fashion.  It takes one or more ftp
       URLS on the command line.  The file(s) will be retrieved from the remote server and placed in the current directory with the same  basename
       as on the remote; i.e., ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/CONFIG/active.gz is stored as active.gz in the current directory.

BUGS

       simpleftp  is  an  extremely  poor substitute for more complete programs like the freely available wget or ncftp utilities.  It was written
       only to provide elementary support in INN for non-interactive fetching of the files in ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/CONFIG/ without requir-
       ing administrators to install yet another package.  Its shortcomings as a general purpose program are too numerous to mention, but one that
       stands out is that simpleftp does not understand the complete syntax of URLs, only the hostname and pathname parts -- it  will  not  under-
       stand username, password, port or parameter strings.

HISTORY

       Tossed off by David C Lawrence <tale@isc.org> for InterNetNews.

SEE ALSO

       actsync(8).

																      SIMPLEFTP(1)

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