Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, I am looking for a script to zip some folders and ftp the zip files automatically,

is there a script already written somewhere or can someone help me start to write one?

thanks a lot

What have you tried so far? Have you tried to search the forums even....?

Sample script to ftp a file. Hope you know how to create zip ...............

Code:

#!/bin/bash
filename="/home/paul/myfile.tar.gz"
hostname="ftp.myhost.com"
username="username"
password="password"
ftp -un $hostname <<EOF
quote USER $username
quote PASS $password
binary
put $filename
quit
EOF

thanks for that, I can create the zip files and ftp no problem but I wanted to automate the process if possible..

I have 900 folders, I need to zip all folders to 900 zip files and then ftp all the zip files but I dont have enough room on my pc to zip them all at once so ideally the script should make a zip then ftp it then delete it, then move on to the next one.

thanks

Code:

for X in *
do
        zip -r "$dir.zip" dir
        send_ftp_stuff
        rm "$dir.zip"
done

thanks but I am a beginner, im not sure what to do with that.

Then see first what this does:

Code:

for DIR in *
do
        echo $DIR
done