UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi Forum,

I am extremely new to unix.Can somebody please help me out with the following:

I am supposed to write a script that will ftp a file which is a .csv and conatins the following:
Mail-id Path of file
abc@xyz.com D:\xyz\abc.htm
ash@sde.com D:\xyz\ash.htm

a)I need to FTP this file to my local machine.
b)Then read through each line of the file to get the file location of individual files.
c)Then FTP those individually to local.
d)Then send these files eg abc.htm as an attachment to abc@xyz.com
and ash.htm to ash@sde.com

Can somebody Pleeease help me with this.....

Also wanted to know if sending mails from unix to others as in rediff.com or gmail.com..does this require a mail server like MS exchange server to be present on the local machine......

Please help....
Regards.....

You state it's a csv file - yet the information you show (contains the following) doesn't have commas separating the fields.

a) see Automate FTP / Scripting FTP transfers
b) see For loops within ftp commands - you will be combining the two scripts or calling (a) from (b).
c) This is taken into consideration in b).
d) see Sending mail attachments


Not exactly. Try sending mail from that server now - does it work? If it does, then nothing more is needed. If not, then post the OS and version and check to see if you have sendmail installed. Normally you don't need to have it running to send the email - it will start and attempt to send when you 'write' the email.