Shell Programming and Scripting

mget *.txt also doesnt work.......
mget * works but that pulls all files [including non txt files]

dude, at least post some errors or anything you see abnormal that you got if you have any. don't just say it doesn't work. how would we know?

Sorry about that
mget *.txt
gives a warning that found no such list of files and pulls 0 byte file ...when i see that there exists a file in the ftp server..

Also I tried your other solution with grep: gives me a warning unknown command found

HOST='domain.com'
USER='yourid'
PASSWD='yourpw'

ftp -n $HOST <<END|grep *.txt
quote USER $USER
quote PASS $PASSWD

quit
END
done

then does it work when you do it manually?
make sure you change directory to where the files are. make sure globbing is turn on by using "glob on". make sure you use ftp -ni ( check man page for -i option information).

You can't do if then else inside an ftp command. Whenever you do "ftp << END" then anything in between has to be an ftp command. So you have to manually do the ftp command to see what commands to perform then from the results perform your task to check if the results are what you expect. For example to get a listing of a file called filename do your ftp command something like this


filename="/home/paul/myfile.tar.gz"
hostname="ftp.myhost.com"
username="username"
password="password"
ftp -un $hostname <<EOF > ftpresults
quote USER $username
quote PASS $password
dir $filename
quit
EOF
test=`grep -c $fliename ftpresults`
if [ $test != 0 ]
then
echo "FILE EXITS"
Perform function here
else
echo "FILE doesn't exist"
fi