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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Loops within ftp shell session Post 96180 by blowtorch on Wednesday 18th of January 2006 10:22:19 AM
Old 01-18-2006
zaff,
You are trying to loop inside the ftp command (everything that you are doing after the << is inside the ftp command) That is not going to work, as ftp does not support these commands.

A better suggestion is to construct a ftp script and feed it to the ftp program.
Code:
#!/bin/sh
USER=myuser
PASSWD=mypass
filenum=$1
x=0

echo "open 159.167.95.199
user $USER $PASSWD
binary
cd pacsftp01" > /tmp/ftp.$$
while [ $x -lt $filenum ]
do
echo "put test.txt
delete test.txt" >> tmp/ftp.$$
x=`expr $x + 1`
done
echo "quit" >> /tmp/ftp.$$
ftp -ivn < /tmp/ftp.$$
echo $x files transferred
rm /tmp/ftp.$$


Last edited by blowtorch; 01-18-2006 at 11:28 AM.. Reason: remove --not tested-- as it just was
 

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bup-ftp(1)						      General Commands Manual							bup-ftp(1)

NAME
bup-ftp - ftp-like client for navigating bup repositories SYNOPSIS
bup ftp DESCRIPTION
bup ftp is a command-line tool for navigating bup repositories. It has commands similar to the Unix ftp(1) command. The file hierarchy is the same as that shown by bup-fuse(1) and bup-ls(1). Note: if your system has the python-readline library installed, you can use the <tab> key to complete filenames while navigating your backup data. This will save you a lot of typing. COMMANDS
The following commands are available inside bup ftp: ls [-s] [-a] [path] print the contents of a directory. If no path argument is given, the current directory's contents are listed. If -a is given, also include hidden files (files which start with a . character). If -s is given, each file is displayed with its hash from the bup ar- chive to its left. cd dirname change to a different working directory pwd print the path of the current working directory cat filenames... print the contents of one or more files to stdout get filename localname download the contents of filename and save it to disk as localname. If localname is omitted, uses filename as the local name. mget filenames... download the contents of the given filenames and stores them to disk under the same names. The filenames may contain Unix filename globs (*, ?, etc.) help print a list of available commands quit exit the bup ftp client EXAMPLE
$ bup ftp bup> ls mybackup/ yourbackup/ bup> cd mybackup/ bup> ls 2010-02-05-185507@ 2010-02-05-185508@ latest@ bup> cd latest/ bup> ls (...etc...) bup> get myfile Saving 'myfile' bup> quit SEE ALSO
bup-fuse(1), bup-ls(1), bup-save(1), bup-restore(1) BUP
Part of the bup(1) suite. AUTHORS
Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>. Bup unknown- bup-ftp(1)
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