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did a search but was not allowed to use 'ftp' because its too short of a word.

for some reason, i can't seem to remember anything about ftp shell scripts - would someone please refresh my memory on the syntax and maybe give a short example? thanks for the time.

figured i'd post it in case anyone else was looking for it as well...
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inside a regular shell script, your call would look like this:
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#!/usr/bin/sh
cd [DIR_YOU_WANT_TO_UPLOAD_FROM]
/usr/bin/ftp -ivn < [PATH_TO_FILE]/filename.ftp
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inside the 'filename.ftp' your ftp commands would looke like this:
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open [SERVER_NAME or IP_NUMBER]
user [USER_NAME] [USER_PASSWORD]
#from here you can just execute commands
#as you normally would in an ftp session
bin #(sets 'binary' mode transfer)
cd [DIR_YOU_WANT_TO_UPLOAD_IN]
put [FILES_YOU_WANT_TO_UPLOAD]
bye
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Thanks, dude!

n/p

ya know, i'm honestly suprised i couldn't find a single example of an ftp shell script on the internet - i actually ended up digging it out of my archives. you would think that with so many people asking about it that there would've been one. gotta start somewhere i guess.

I know, it's weird. I always did ftp by hand, so the main thing that I was wondering was how to pass the username and password to the program. I also changed

"/usr/bin/ftp -ivn < [PATH_TO_FILE]/filename.ftp" to

"/usr/bin/ftp -ivn < [PATH_TO_FILE]/filename.ftp >logfile 2>&1 &"

so that I could get a log file with errors and output to check it later and run it in the background since I plan to shcedule it to run at certain inetrvals.

Anyway, thanks again!

nice .. i'll have to modify mine as well - thanks for the tid-bit