windows to unix ftp script

[KRS_1]

i need a script to automate a job from unix to windows. Any help will be appreciated

Thanks
Rajesh

[Alan Meyer_4]

ftp -v -n <open destination_node
user username password
put filename
quit
EOF


NOTE:
This assumes that username's default directory is where you want to upoad the files. If not, insert a cd command to change directory before the put statement.

[A. Clay Stephenson · Accepted solution]

If you are going from a UNIX client to a Windows FTP server then you have to install and start an FTP server on Windows.

In either case, a very straightforward way of setting up a scripted FTP client is via Perl's NET::FTP Module.

You can install a free version of Perl for Windows from http://www.activeperl.com/.

Here is the ftpget.pl. You can specify the remotehost, login, password, (or read them from .netrc), directory, binary or ASCII, and filenames. Invoke as ftpget.pl -u for full usage.

Generally it's something like:
ftpget.pl -h remotehost -l cstephen -p topsecret -A -d /var/tmp -t 5 file1 file2
STAT=${?}
if [[ ${STAT} -eq 0 ]]
then
echo "All files ok"
else
echo "Failed; status = ${STAT}"
fi

All error-checking, timeouts, and retries are built-in.

[A. Clay Stephenson]

And heres the clint program for put's. ftpput.pl. As before invoke with -u for full usage.

[A. Clay Stephenson]

The problem with the vast majority of shell/batch file FTP programs is that absolutely no attention is paid to error checking. If the host can't be reached, if the file doesn't exist, etc., typically the scripts just blindly goes ahead and you don't have a clue that anything went wrong. With Perl's Net::FTP, you get the error-checking "for free". It's really the way to do this unless your want to implement secure shell or secure FTP and yes, there's a Perl module for secure FTP as well but for ordinary use, the Perl client scripts supplied will do very well.

[KRS_1]

Thanks for your help.