UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I would like to know a way that we can exec.......some thing like this from the prompt

for EG when we type ftp then we could got ftp> prompt and all the ftp related commands would execute instead i need to use the ftp commands like get put from the normal user prompt it self

somethinmg like ftp | get.........( i know this way it wont work, but this is the scenario where i looking to use in the scripts.

here document:

Code:

ftp -n <<EOF
open somenode
username pswd
put somefile
bye
EOF

Note: the last EOF has to be in column 1

hi should i use this a script to do the put operations only. can i apply this logic to any thing, i mean the basic application that i want to use is gnuplot and inside this i want to use the plot command. where the plot command has a syntax to follow.

please advice

You can run any program that interacts with the user and accepts a sequence of commands or answers. YOu just have to know what the commands are ahead of time.

will it be supported by your ftp session if YES then you can use gunplot or whatever