Shell Programming and Scripting

hi there
here is my problem
i have a shell that copy files from unix to a shared linux samba (with rcp)
i will change my linux machine with a windows one and saw rcp didnt work anymore ...
so i tried ftp and saw it worked with these following commands

ftp -niv <<fin
open 192.9.200.105
user utilisateur mdp
put fichiertest
quit
fin

but the problem is that my filename need to be a variable ($1) and it represents the file and the directory (/dir1/dir2/filexx) . so itried it with : put $1 instead of put fichiertest and ... it does not work !

anyone has an idea ???
thanks for advance ! and excuse my poor english ...

samba is not involved in rcp, that's something by itself. Hmm.

Try:

Code:

FILE=`basename "$1"`

ftp -niv <<fin
open 192.9.200.105
user utilisateur mdp
put ${1} ${FILE}
quit
fin

When you put two filenames on a single put, you're doing "put localfile remotefile".

Code:

FULLNAME="$1"        # For example /dir1/dir2/filexx
#
DIR=`dirname "${FULLNAME}"`
FILENAME=`basename "${FULLNAME}"`
#
cd "${DIR}"
#
ftp -niv <<fin
open 192.9.200.105
user utilisateur mdp
put ${FILENAME}
quit
fin

thanks for the help !! will try it tomorrow and i'll take you informed !