topic Re: ftp script not working in Operating System - HP-UX

ftp script not working

rookie250 — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 06:57:47 GMT

hi

I have made d below ftp script but the last part of script ie. moving the files after transfer (to a location in the source server only) is not working for me.

Can anybody pls..help.in same..!!!

#######################################################
#!/bin/sh
ftp -n 10.209.13.11 <quote USER xyz
quote PASS xyz
bin
prompt
cd /test
put reports.zip reports.tmp
rename reports.tmp reports.zip
#quit
bye
#END_SCRIPT
#exit 0
echo Arun
mv -f /export/VSNL_RECS_logs/MUM_ILD/strsp/reports.zip /test_script/test/

exit 0
END_SCRIPT
#############################################################

Re: ftp script not working

Yogeeraj_1 — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 07:17:18 GMT

hi,

does the command work when executed outside the script?

could be a permission problem.

please check

kind regards
yogeeraj

Re: ftp script not working

spex — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 07:23:40 GMT

Hi,

For starters, your here-document needs to end where "#END_SCRIPT" appears. In other words, uncomment that line, and remove or comment "END_SCRIPT" appearing at the end of the script.

Next make sure that the ftp user has read permission on reports.zip and write permission on /test_script/test/. Also make sure that reports.zip exists at the time the script is run. Just to be safe, substitute the absolute path to mv (/usr/bin/mv).

Try running the "mv -f ..." command separately. Do you receive any error messages?

PCS

Re: ftp script not working

Arturo Galbiati — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 03:32:30 GMT

Hi,
if I well understood, try this:
#######################################################
#!/bin/sh
ftp -n 10.209.13.11 <quote USER xyz
quote PASS xyz
bin
prompt
cd /test
put reports.zip reports.tmp
rename reports.tmp reports.zip
#quit
bye
END_SCRIPT
#exit 0
echo Arun
mv -f /export/VSNL_RECS_logs/MUM_ILD/strsp/reports.zip /test_script/test/

exit 0
#END_SCRIPT
#############################################################

the END_SCRIPT label has to close teh input for ftp. In this way the mv command will be executed by shell instead of ftp.

HTH,
Art

Re: ftp script not working

Steven Schweda — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 03:50:37 GMT

> quote USER xyz
> quote PASS xyz

Why not use a simple "user" command? For
example:

user user_name password

Using "quote USER" and "quote PASS" seems
like the hard way to do the job.

Also, "prompt" affects prompting for
multiple-file commands (like "mget" and
"mput"). You don't seem to be using any of
those.

Re: ftp script not working

Carlos M.J. — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 05:19:27 GMT

Could you use something like this?
It works for me on HPUX 11i:

ftp -in < commands.txt

---File "commands.txt"---
open [machine_ip]
user [ftp_user] [ftp_password]
lcd [full_path_local_dir]
cd [full_path_dest_dir]
bin
mput [files_to_move]
bye
-------------------------

Hope this helps

Re: ftp script not working

lawrenzo — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 05:29:53 GMT

you need to specify the full path to rename the file ie

#!/bin/sh
ftp -n 10.209.13.11 <quote USER xyz
quote PASS xyz
bin
prompt
cd /test
put reports.zip reports.tmp

rename /{fullpath}/reports.zip /{fullpath}/reports.zip

bye
!END_SCRIPT

echo Arun
mv -f /export/VSNL_RECS_logs/MUM_ILD/strsp/reports.zip /test_script/test/

exit 0

This works for me.