> | Excuse if this is a FAQ, but how can I set up a shell script to ftp to a
> | host and retrieve a file?
>
> If you install ncftp, you get a program called ncftpget that can be
> used to get files non-interactively (eg in a script).
Not necessaraly with ncftp, plain fto will do. In a script:
#!/bin/sh
ftp -i -n <host> <<EOI
user <userid> <passwd>
cd /some/dir
bin
get somefile save/file/name
bye
EOI
Alex Y.
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