Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi everybody,

i suddenly got in a requirement whereby:

I have to create a script whereby I need to connect with a remote server with a FTP script [regular ftp and not sftp/ssh] and search whether a file named filename.txt or *.txt exists or not in the remote server. If it exists then my script has to return a value.

Is it at all possible?

Thanks in advance.

you can use autoexpect

AUTOEXPECT(1) manual page

Hi dont hv autoexpect research3 in unix

You don't have permission to install it?

no i dont. thanks research3

what are you stuck with. show your code. you have a previous thread on FTP also.
one way you can check if to do a listing and get the results piped to a search tool such as grep/awk. Pls put in some effort.

yes ghostdog..I couldn't figure it , Honestly I am stuck with whether I can use

if [ -e exists]; then
echo "i am there"

inside a ftp script for example [my below script pattern might be wrong]

HOST
USER
PASSWORD

ftp -in <>

bi

END SCRIPT
EXIT

I just need to know how can i use the if then else or or other commands inside the ftp statement..Thanks so much