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Old 03-23-2009
Use ftp is a shell script
Hi,

What i would like to do is to use a shell script connect to a remote computer and download files from a specific directory. I wrote the following script.

#!/bin/sh

HOST='IP'
USER='yourid'
PASSWD='yourpw'
FILE='*.txt'
REMOTEPATH=/incoming/MSC/


ftp $HOST <<END_SCRIPT
user $USER
$PASSWD
get $FILE (or) get $REMOTEPATH
quit
END_SCRIPT
exit 0

Do you think that this will work?
# 2  
Old 03-23-2009
MySQL
Hi,

Small change..

lftp -u ${USER},${PASSWD} ${HOST} <<END_SCRIPT
get $FILE (or) get $REMOTEPATH
bye
END_SCRIPT
exit 0

Hope this should work

Thanks
Sha
# 3  
Old 03-23-2009
Try this

ftp -inv $HOST << END_SCRIPT
user $USER $PASSWD
cd $REMOTEPATH
mget $FILE
bye
END_SCRIPT
exit 0


Regardz,
Tom
# 4  
Old 03-23-2009
The below is a VERY simplified method that works for me. I do a lot of scripted ftp of files between systems and my scripts do a lot of error detection as well as scheduled executions. Sometimes the scripts are called by other scripts. The $DEBUG saves the verbose messages so that you can review ftp sessions in case you need to figure out what went wrong.

Code:
 
HOSTNAME="ftpsite"
USERID="userid"
PASSWORD="password"
MODE=ascii
REMOTEPATH="/incoming/path"
GETFMASK="\*.txt"
DEBUG="$HOME/ftpdebug.txt"
FTPSCR="$HOME/temp/$HOSTNAME.scr"
echo "open $HOSTNAME" > $FTPSCR
echo "user $USERID $PASSWORD" >> $FTPSCR
echo "prompt" >> $FTPSCR
echo "$MODE" >> $FTPSCR
echo "cd $REMOTEPATH" >> $FTPSCR
echo "mget $GETFMASK" >> $FTPSCR
echo "mdel $GETFMASK" >> $FTPSCR
echo "bye" >> $FTPSCR
ftp -n -v < $FTPSCR >> $DEBUG 2>&1

Last edited by vbe; 03-23-2009 at 02:23 PM.. Reason: added tag
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