ftp script

[YE LIU_1]

Dear VMS Users,

I am trying to find out a FTP script to transfer files in batch. I tried "ftp /INPUT" and it gives me error as:

%DCL-W-IVQUAL, unrecognized qualifier - check validity, spelling, and placement
\INPUT\

Can you give me an example?

YE LIU

[Joseph Huber_1]

Please tell us:
VMS version, TCPIP stack and version, FTP client and version.

If You type FTP without arguments it will tell You client program and version.
If the client is e.g. HGFTP, then it has no /INPUT qualifier, but You can put commands into SYS$INPUT.

[Steven Schweda]

> Please tell us:
> [...]

Always good advice. Also:
show symbol ftp

It's also often useful to describe the actual
problem you're trying to solve, instead of
describing what went wrong with your attempt
to solve that problem. For example, if
you're trying to fetch files, you may find a
program like wget useful. In either
direction, COPY /FTP can be useful, if your
VMS version is not too old.


> If You type FTP without arguments it will
> tell You client program and version.

Really? Around here:
alp $ tcpip show version

HP TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS Alpha Version V5.4 - ECO 6
on a COMPAQ Professional Workstation XP1000 running OpenVMS V7.3-2

alp $ ftp
FTP>

Not very informative.

[YE LIU_1]

Thanks.

The ftp version is:

MultiNet FTP user process V4.4(119)

Can you show me how to use sys$input to script ftp commands?

Thanks,

YE LIU

[Jim_McKinney]

$ help multinet ftp /take

MULTINET

FTP

/TAKE_FILE

/TAKE_FILE=file

Causes FTP to execute commands from the specified file before
entering command mode. This qualifier is functionally equivalent
to re-directing SYS$INPUT:.

[John Gillings]

YE,

If your script is variable, you may want to use PIPE to feed commands into FTP:

$ ws="WRITE SYS$OUTPUT"
$ PIPE (ws "SET PASSIVE ON" ; -
ws "ls ''dstdir'''dstfile'") | -
FTP /INPUT=SYS$PIPE /USERNAME="''dstuser'" /PASSWORD="''dstpass'" 'dstnode' | -
(... pipe segment to catch and process output)

(I assume something similar can be done with Multinet)

On the other hand, if it's a simple file transfer, COPY/FTP or RCP is the way to go.

[Steven Schweda]

> [...] COPY/FTP or RCP is the way to go.

Or, with a bit of effort, Kermit's FTP client
can be made to work on VMS, and it offers
rather extensive scriptimg capability. But
I'd guess that the poster wouldn't care.