I just finished my first bash script that will handle daily ftp downloads for me, but I'm certain it could use some improvement.
Its job is to download IDX data from an ftp host (which is 24 hours behind) and I download a mix of *.txt.gz file and .tar files.
There are also "old" archives that I want to ignore.
Here's the code (its works fairly well though I get an occasional timeout)
Code:
#!/bin/bash
clear
USER="my_username"
PASS='my$password'
FTPSERVER="idx.fnismls.com"
YESTERDAY=$(TZ=EST26EDT date +%Y%m%d)
#echo $YESTERDAY
FILE1="pics-commercial-industrial-$YESTERDAY.tar"
FILE2="pics-condo-townhouse-$YESTERDAY.tar"
FILE3="pics-lots and land-$YESTERDAY.tar"
FILE4="pics-multi family-$YESTERDAY.tar"
FILE5="pics-residential-$YESTERDAY.tar"
#echo $FILE
ftp -i -n $FTPSERVER << EOF
user $USER $PASS
cd /IDX2
bin
mget *.txt.gz
get $FILE1
get $FILE2
get $FILE3
get $FILE4
get $FILE5
bye
I'd love to know what some things are I can do to improve this in the event of errors etc...
You should put the username and password in your ~/.netrc file.
Quote:
Code:
cd /IDX2
bin
mget *.txt.gz
get $FILE1
get $FILE2
get $FILE3
get $FILE4
get $FILE5
bye
I'd love to know what some things are I can do to improve this in the event of errors etc...
The ftp command is not well-suited to scripting; error handling is one of it weaknesses. For scripting, if you can't use scp (recommended), use the ncftp suite of commands.
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