UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

hi there all the unix-gurus,

anyone can offer me some advise/help? i'm writing a ftp script and i need to spool out the output to a file but i'm facing some problems when i'm doing the following:

ftp -n <mail server> ${log_dir}/test_put.log << END
user <user_id> <password>
verbose
bin
# Before putting the A0 Data
pwd >> ${log_dir}/test_put.log
dir >> ${log_dir}/test_put.log

it gives me this output which i do not want:

drw-rw-rw- 1 ftp ftp 0 Oct 10 14:26 .
drw-rw-rw- 1 ftp ftp 0 Oct 10 14:26 ..

I don't see all the files listed.

Anyway to resolve this?

Thanks.

When you do <<END you are sending the next lines into the ftp program. The ftp program knows what "dir" means while the shell does not. But the ftp program has no idea at all what "dir >> ${log_dir}/test_put.log" means. Yes, it knows "dir". But the rest of that lines is gibberish. Just do "pwd" and "dir". You are already sending the output of ftp into that log file.

Hi Perderabo,

Many thanks for the solution. It works perfectly fine. Thanks again =)