Shell Programming and Scripting

HOST='xxxx'
USER='xxxxx'
PASSWD='xxxxxx'
ftp -i -n $HOST << START
user ${USER} ${PASSWD}
binary
cd /home/xxxx/xxxx
get test
quit
START

# $1 == filename
HOST='xxxx'
USER='xxxxx'
PASSWD='xxxxxx'
# find out if the file is on the remote box
ftp -i -n $HOST << START > /tmp/chk
user ${USER} ${PASSWD}
binary
cd /home/xxxx/xxxx
dir ${1}
quit
START
# this looks to see if remote file was found  otherwise exit early
[ grep -fq 'test' /tmp/chk ]  || exit
ftp -i -n $HOST << START
user ${USER} ${PASSWD}
binary
cd /home/xxxx/xxxx
get ${1}
quit
START