Shell Programming and Scripting

Don't worry about locking out the account; if the login fails the fact that any subsequent commands fail won't affect the destination account. It will only count as one failed login.

Yes, if statements can be performed in awk, but the problem is that the awk can not see the output of the FTP command, it is just generating a list of commands that are piped into FTP.

You can simplify the error-checking block using the following:

Code:

        if grep -Eqi 'Not connected|not authorized|file access permissions do not allow|Login failed|Mismatched|ABOR| No such file|Allocated to another|not found'  $LOG
        then
           echo "Problem with FTP process, `date`" >> $LOG
           echo "Problem with FTP process, files were not sent out"
           echo ""
           echo "Please check $LOG for more information"
           exit 1
        else

Depending on your OS it may be egrep -qi rather than grep -Eqi. Also, if the -q option (quiet) is not available, simply redirect the output of the grep to /dev/null.