Shell Programming and Scripting

hi all

i am very new to unix. we had the below scenior

test.bat file which contains

ftp -s:logfiles.scr servername

logfiles.scr contains

username
password

cd path
get file
bye

We had n number of batch(.bat files). which is having the same kind of scr file pointing same unix user. but getting different file
we dont know how to avoid the repeated username/pwd in all scr .

When we tried in a seperate scr for username/pwd. it is not login to unix.
like userid.scr
username
password

if anybody has the solution to keep username/pwd in a seperate file or parameter.

Pls give us with some example

I can't quite follow. Do you want to do ftps to many different hosts and get very different files from there or different hosts and always the same file from the same place or...

Nevertheless you might think of setting up ssh so you can do scp or sftp without big effort and encrypted too, if that's an option.

Else you should have a file or an array with a list of hostnames, loop it with for/do/done for example and call the ftp client with a here script, as a start.

Hi

thank for reply.

Actually we had same host detail in all scr but getting different files from unix. instead of keeping host details(username/password) in all files. we would like to keep it in a separate file. once the username or pwd change we can change in a singlel file.

We are very know to unix.

using ftp we have to get unix files through scr.

Pls give some samples....that may help to us

Would .netrc not be an option?

You can write a file like:

Code:

host1 username password
host2 anothername passw0rd
...

Read that file with while/read and parse all 3 parameters into some ftp here-script.
What might be (if possible in your environment) better is using ssh and so with sftp/scp. You can just exchange the public keys and at least can leave out the usernames and PWs of the list; and it's also encrypted.

could you pls some sample....

since that .bat file will run in the windows environment.

I am sorry, I have no knowledge of Windows Batch scripts. I could only give you an example in shell script.