topic automatic FTP script in Operating System - HP-UX

automatic FTP script

tayal_sumit — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 11:20:04 GMT

Hi all,

I am doing FTP with a shell script but it is not running properly.Please send me if anybody have any automatic ftp script.

#!/usr/sbin/sh
ftp -i -n 10.1.1.76
user (username)/(password)
bin
cd /home/user home dir
lcd /home/dir
mget *.txt
bye

regards,

Re: automatic FTP script

Bill Hassell — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 12:52:32 GMT

You got everything correct except the 'here document' codes. The commands below the ftp line must be flagged as belonging to ftp's STDIN and this is done with << plus an ending string such as EOF. This should work OK:

#!/usr/sbin/sh

USER=bill
PW=abc123
ftp -v -i -n 10.1.1.76 << EOF
user $USER $PW
bin
cd /home/$USER
lcd /home/$USER
mget *.txt
bye
EOF

The << EOF string says: take the following lines and feed them into ftp, then stop when EOF is found.

Re: automatic FTP script

James R. Ferguson — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 13:08:44 GMT

Hi:

This will not work. One way using this technique is:

{ echo "open 10.1.1.76
user theuser thepassword
type binary
cd /home/userhomedir
lcd /home/dir
mget *.txt
bye"
} | ftp -in

A more secure way than putting an account password into a script (although still not the most secure way) is to use the '.netrc' file. See the manpages for 'netrc(4)'.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: automatic FTP script

Steven Schweda — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:42:12 GMT

cd /home/dir
wget "ftp://${user}:${pass}@10.1.1.76/home/user_home_dir/*.txt"

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

Re: automatic FTP script

tayal_sumit — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 06:50:54 GMT

Hi Bill,

I have tried your script it's working nice.

Keep up the good work.

Thank you very much

regards,
Sumit