Trying to do this within a shell script is very Mickey Mouse because it's difficult to parse ftp's stderr for error messages and you probably won't test everything you need anyway. Use Perl's Net::FTP and this is simple and you get error checking for free.
The attached Perl script returns 0 if ok and non-zero if bad and that's all you need to know to make this work. I will invoke the script one time to get the files in the remote directory and then invoke again for each to get and delete each file. It only deletes the remote file, if the get was ok.
#!/usr/bin/sh
typeset remhost="bugs"
typeset user="cstephen"
typeset passwd="secret"
typeset remdir="/tmp/acs" # remote directory
typeset FNAME=""
typeset -i STAT=0
ftpget.pl -h ${remhost} -l ${user} \
-p ${passwd} -d ${remdir} -L "" |\
while read FNAME
do
echo "Getting ${FNAME}"
ftpget.pl -h ${remhost} -l ${user} \
-p ${passwd} -d ${remdir} -B -r "${FNAME}"
STAT=${?}
if [[ ${STAT} -ne 0 ]]
then
echo "Get of \"${FNAME}\" failed; status ${STAT}." >&2
break
fi
done
exit ${STAT}
The -B option asserts binary transfers; if you want ASCII use -A. It's important to quote the filename because you might have whitespace embedded in the pathnames --- especially on one of those evil Windows boxes. If you don't want to pass the password then put the username/password tuple in the .netrc file. Invoke as "ftpget.pl -u" for full usage.
If it ain't broke, I can fix that.
