Shell Programming and Scripting

tikual
script looks great :-))
wat is -ivn for ?
anyway
looking for man entry;-)
thanks buddy

tikual
when i run the script using ksh -x <script name>
it says the ftp server ready and after that says password required for devops with cursor blinking at the end of
password:
even after passing the password there is no response and system kind of hangs
any idea about that!!!!

this is what it shows at the end of it all

230 User devops logged in

Here are the requested option definitions. See also, man ftp
-i Turns off interactive prompting during multiple file transfers.

-n Restrains ftp from attempting ``auto-login'' upon initial connection. If auto-login is enabled, ftp will check the .netrc (seenetrc(5)) file in the user's home directory for an entry describing an account on the remote machine. If no entry exists, ftp will prompt for the remote machine login name (default is the user identity on the local machine), and, if necessary, prompt for a password and an account with which to login.

-v Verbose option forces ftp to show all responses from the remote server, as well as report on data transfer statistics.

ksh -x <script name>
This is a debug mode of sorts, that displays all commands and arguments as the script executes. Remove the line as its not needed. Use a log file instead.

Ok, two things you may check first.
1. Do all steps by manual first. See any errors found.
2. According you posted that message from the script, the ftp login success but hang. Did you remove the comment line from the script first?? I mean you should remove the line started from "#" one.

Remove the following lines in ftp part.
#If the file is binary, change it from 'asc' to 'bi'
#Modify this line

I am sorry for didn't mention that clearly.

i have removed all comments
i am not making a log file also!!!
does it make any diff?
thanks again

maverick, I think it might help if you would post your exact script.

this is how my script looks

USER=devops
PASSWD=*secret*
HOST=1.23.101.77


ftp -ivn << EOF
open $HOST
user $USER $PASSWD

cd /HOME/proddata
put fbdemo.dat
bye
EOF




I edited the script to remove the password -- Perderabo