Shell Programming and Scripting

rm file1
rm file2
etc.

mget *
quit

# Get list of files on FTP server
ftp -i -n <<EOF > /tmp/filelist.txt
open <hostname>
user <userid> <passwd>
ls
bye
quit
EOF

# Run through the list of files and get, delete each file
for i in `cat /tmp/filelist.txt`
do
  ftp -i -n <<EOF
  open <hostname>
  user <userid> <passwd>
  get $i
  delete $i
  bye
  quit
  EOF
done

#!/bin/ksh
if [ -r lock.file ]
then
 exit 1
fi
echo $$ >lock.file
if [ ! -r input.file ]
then
 echo "mget *" >input.file
 echo "quit " >>input.file
fi
ftp site <input.file
cat /dev/null >input.file
list=`ls received files`
#list=`ls *.job`  if there are two files file.data and file.job 
for file in $list
  process $file
  echo "rm $file\n" >>input.file
  mv $file ../done
done
 echo "mget *\n" >>input.file
 echo "quit\n" >>input file
rm lock.file