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Old 03-07-2005
To answer your question, the first entry will work and the second will be ignored. You just cannot do this with a netrc file. I have seen some scripts that create a netrc file upon execution so each script can do a different thing. But this may collide if the scripts run at the same time.

See our faq article on automating ftp for some other options.
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Old 03-07-2005
thankyou perderabo
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