topic FTP commands in the shell scripts in Operating System - HP-UX

FTP commands in the shell scripts

Radim Jarosek — Wed, 25 Apr 2001 05:19:38 GMT

Hi everybody,

I need write a scripts with ftp commands.

for example:
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#!/usr/bin/sh

cd /home/user1

ftp machine
user_name
passwd
get file
bye

exit 0

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I have no idea how to do it. :-(

I guess that it is so stupid but ...

Could you anyone help me ?

Thanks Radim

Re: FTP commands in the shell scripts

Thierry Poels_1 — Wed, 25 Apr 2001 05:23:30 GMT

Hi,
you're already close. Redirect standard input to the ftp command, all following lines will be handled like you would type them until the marker (here EOT) is found.

ftp machine << EOT
user_name
passwd
get file
bye
EOT

good luck,
Thierry

Re: FTP commands in the shell scripts

Radim Jarosek — Wed, 25 Apr 2001 05:35:48 GMT

Hi,

wow, so fast response :-).

I've already tried to use here doc but it didn't work as I excepted. I got to the passwd prompt only.

Radim

Re: FTP commands in the shell scripts

federico_3 — Wed, 25 Apr 2001 05:48:54 GMT

Use the following:

/usr/bin/ftp -vn <<-EOF
open "IP or hostname"
uer "username""password "

bin
get file
quit
EOF

federico

Re: FTP commands in the shell scripts

Tommy Palo — Wed, 25 Apr 2001 06:03:37 GMT

An old thread:
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,1150,0xffe5f841489fd4118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html

Re: FTP commands in the shell scripts

Thierry Poels_1 — Wed, 25 Apr 2001 06:04:47 GMT

response was toooo fast ;)

ftp -n server << EOT
user theuser thepassword
cd thedirectory
get thefile
bye
EOT

Re: FTP commands in the shell scripts

Radim Jarosek — Wed, 25 Apr 2001 06:26:53 GMT

Hi everybody,

What's surprise! It's working :)

Thanks for your help

Radim

p.s. Points are coming ;)

Re: FTP commands in the shell scripts

Nick Wickens — Thu, 26 Apr 2001 08:42:01 GMT

Ok - Heres a challenge - How would you make the password in such an FTP script unviewable ?

I was toying with using crypt somehow but you would still need to have the crypy key available.

Re: FTP commands in the shell scripts

Kirk Gardner — Thu, 26 Apr 2001 17:59:49 GMT

Or...configure a .netrc macro.

Re: FTP commands in the shell scripts

Thierry Poels_1 — Thu, 26 Apr 2001 18:25:17 GMT

Hi Nick,
I aggree about the password issue.
I've been thinking about it too; but haven't got any further than creating FTP accounts with very very very limited privileges.
Also the script should be kept away from hungry eyes ;)
Thierry.