Shell Programming and Scripting

hi forum
here is the problem i want to move ystrdays file (kept in my archive folder) from my develpment server(having a particular IP ddress) to my production server (having another IP address)

any idea how to do that i have never done transfer from one IP to another

help on this one!!
thanks in advance

Insufficient info. from your post. Don't know you want a script or command only. Anyway, you may try 'ftp' or 'rcp' commands to do that.

yes i want a script which should run in the source ip from where i want the transfer
it should transfer the file to the destination IP
can u elaborate on how to use ftp in the SHELL script
actually the reason i want to transfer the files is because the files in question are previous days file
there are some scripts on the other ip which do the processing on the transferred files(previous days file)

i will enter the required script in crontab and at specified time
script will tranfer the files from source IP to destination IP
is there any way of acheiving that

thanks in advance

what is the name? Do it change in everyday? I need it before preparing script.

if u r talking about the file name it is fbdemo.dat
actually there are 8 files in archive folder which need to be moved
from source IP to destination IP
i hope this info will do

thanks again

You may modify few of lines before running.

#!/bin/ksh

#Modify these three lines
USER=your_login_name
PASS=your_password
HOST=THE_DESTINATION_IP
FTPLOG=LOG_FOR_YOUR_REFERENCE

ftp -ivn << EOF > $FTPLOG 2>&1
open $HOST
user $USER $PASS
#If the file is binary, change it from 'asc' to 'bi'
asc
#Modify this line
cd /DESTINATION_PATH
put fbdemo.dat
bye
EOF

Then you can put this script in crontab for auto run. I will give you another post for interactive because you may think that it has a security issue on password shown in a script.

You may try it for interactive use.

#!/bin/ksh

read USER?"Enter Your User Name: "
stty -echo
read PASS?"Enter Your Password: "
stty echo
print

#Modify these lines
HOST=THE_DESTINATION_IP
FTPLOG=LOG_FOR_YOUR_REFERENCE

ftp -ivn << EOF > $FTPLOG 2>&1
open $HOST
user $USER $PASS
#If the file is binary, change it from 'asc' to 'bi'
asc
#Modify this line
cd /DESTINATION_PATH
put fbdemo.dat
bye
EOF