topic Re: help in ftp in Operating System - HP-UX

help in ftp

Amir Efrat — Thu, 15 Aug 2002 07:08:05 GMT

Hi, I'm trying to ftp to a remote station in an automatic way - using a script.
How can I enter a user and password in a script that is run by crontab ?
thanks.

Amir

Re: help in ftp

Alan Casey — Thu, 15 Aug 2002 07:22:50 GMT

you can enter:

ftp hostname <user USERID PASSWORD
put file1 file2
bye
EOF

Re: help in ftp

Sebastian Galeski_1 — Thu, 15 Aug 2002 07:23:17 GMT

Hi
try it:

#!/usr/bin/sh
# Script to FTP file
# ftp host user password source_file destination_dir

set -x

HOST=$1
USER=$2
PASS=$3
FILE=$4
DEST_DIR=$5

( echo "user $USER $PASS"
echo "binary"
echo "cd $DEST_DIR"
echo "put $FILE"
echo "quit" ) | ftp -i -n $HOST

use:
./script server1 jack pass file dir1

hope it help

Re: help in ftp

BFA6 — Thu, 15 Aug 2002 07:24:37 GMT

Hi,

We have the following in a script for ftp

{ ftp -n -v $FTPSERVER << ENDOFGET
user $FTPUSER $FTPPASSWD
prompt
binary
get $GETFILE $LOCALFILE.transfer
close
ENDOFGET
} > $TMPFILE 2>&1

$FTPSERVER is the remote server
$FTPUSER is the username
$FTPPASSWD is the password for that user

Hope this helps

Regards,

Hilary

Re: help in ftp

Chris Wilshaw — Thu, 15 Aug 2002 07:34:24 GMT

You could also set up a .netrc for the user

Create this in their home directory.

It can contain a number of entries in the format

machine login password

set this file to have read only permissions for the user

chmod 400 .netrc

then, ftp to the machine identified by

This should then automatically log you in to the server without requesting an ID/password.

Don't forget that having passwords in scripts and .netrc files can be a security risk.