Shell Programming and Scripting

Hey,

same problem. i want to check if files have been successfuly transferred after getting them back, but after I quit the ftp, nothing gets executed.

Difference from original post is that I get 226 and 221 feedbacks from the server.

Code:

226 Transfer complete.
2409 bytes received in 0.0086 seconds (2.7e+02 Kbytes/s)
221

My checking is using 'diff'.

@fpflug
This thread started in August. Please open your own thread - and paste your code.

Is it possible to use scp or sftp instead of ftp? This sort of undefined and unpredictable behavior is only one of many reasons I wouldn't encourage people to script any FTP transfers.

FTP is entirely predictable. It is just very difficult to write good script to cover every eventuality (including a ftp transfer taking too long). The same issues apply to "scp" to a certain extent.
The main use for FTP nowadays is for file transfers to/from Microsoft platforms when it is not possible or economical to configure a better method. Getting Microsoft FTP working is itself hard work.

Anyway the O/P in this thread was clearly trying to get data from a web server.

Please do not ask new questions in existing threads. Unless you have new information to a particular problem, please create a new thread in the appropriate forum.


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@fpflug
Please post the script which is failing.