FTP through script

[Panpalia]

Hi,
Please ignore my knowledge,I am very new to Unix
I am running following code to perform ftp from remote machine.
but i am getting an error -test1: Syntax error at line 4 : `<<' is not matched
please see the code -
ftpthefile()
{
ftp -n < open 10.158.19.136
user gbx wbo\$2008
get /dnbusr1/gbx/audit/gb200804.txt /dnbusr1/gbx/gb200804.txt
bye
EOT
}
exit 0

[john korterman]

Hi,

check for spaces in front of the "second" EOT
They are not allowed.

regards,
John K.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

Make sure that your end-of-file marker (the 'EOT' word) is flush left without leading whitespace.

You may use leading *tab* characters only if you use '-<
Regards!

...JRF...

[Victor Fridyev]

This works:
#!/usr/bin/sh
ftpthefile()
{
ftp -n <open 10.158.19.136
user gbx wbo\$2008
get /dnbusr1/gbx/audit/gb200804.txt /dnbusr1/gbx/gb200804.txt
bye
EOT
}
ftpthefile
exit 0

BTW, I'd prefer to use .netrc:

machine flinux1
login admin
password Adm1n
macdef init
ascii
by
quit

Between macdef init and by you can put all needed commands and run just
ftp flinux1
by the user in whos homedir you have such .netrc

HTH

[Steven Schweda]

And, if all you wish to do is fetch a file,
you might find wget easier to use.

http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/wget.html

[Panpalia]

Thanks everyone!!