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# 1  
Old 03-26-2007
FTP script
To start, this thread, I have read the FTP FAQ and done a search and I can't figure this out. This is really simple, but the first command won't execute. I've removed my server name, user and pass. I've tried modeling it after some of the other examples in the FAQ using ksh, but still can't get that line to execute. It just skips it and goes to the next line. What's the problem?

#!/bin/sh
ftp -n "myserver"<<END_OF_FTP
user username password
put testfile.txt
echo " Test file uploaded!"
get testfile.txt
echo "Test file downloaded!"
END_OF_FTP
# 2  
Old 03-26-2007
For one thing you can't shove echo commands into a here-document intended for ftp since ftp doesn't have an echo command.
# 3  
Old 03-26-2007
OK got it, thanks. Clearly I'm new to scripting.
# 4  
Old 03-26-2007
Here is a script that I use to transmit files:
Code:
function doftp {
   echo 'ftp -in some.ftp.com <<End-Of-Session' > om850ftp
   echo 'user userid pass_word' >> om850ftp
   echo 'type ascii' >> om850ftp
   echo 'cd tempin' >> om850ftp
   echo 'put /law1/lawson/logan/edi/owens850 owens850' >> om850ftp
   echo 'rename owens850 /inbound/owens850_'"$(date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S)" >> om850ftp
   echo 'quit' >> om850ftp
   echo 'End-Of-Session' >> om850ftp
   chmod 777 om850ftp
   ./om850ftp
   rm /law1/lawson/logan/edi/owens850
   rm /law1/lawson/logan/edi/OWENS.outb.*
   rm /law1/lawson/prod/edi/out/POEDI
}
chmod 777 /law1/lawson/logan/edi/OWENS.outb.*
cat /law1/lawson/logan/edi/OWENS.outb.* > /law1/lawson/logan/edi/owens850
if [[ -s /law1/lawson/logan/edi/owens850 ]]; then
     doftp
else
    echo 'owens850 file not found or is empty'
    exit 12
fi
exit

# 5  
Old 03-26-2007
I got it to work, thanks.
# 6  
Old 03-26-2007
I am wondering however, how to verify that the file completed downloading properly because I will need to delete the file on the server when I'm done. So I need to a simple way to verify the downloaded file's integrity and to ensure the process completed properly.
# 7  
Old 03-27-2007
U can use some of my code...but U have to have rsh enabled..

sendTo=machineName
remoteDir=/home/path/test
localDir=/home1/script/test


exists=$(rsh ${sendTo} ls ${remoteDir} | grep ^${file}$ | wc -l )


if [ ${exists} -ne 1 ]
then
rcp ${localDir}/${file} root@machine:${remoteDir}/
# or rm bla bla...
fi
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