I'm sort of amused at the suggestions that are coming out of this
question. The correct answer is: (drum roll please!)
expect
expect is a scripting language designed for programming interactive
responces, especially for programs that do not do IO on std{in,out}.
Ftp *does* read from stdin but your more elegant solution will be expect.
One person responded with a perl interface called ftp. Looks ok, but the
expect solution is much cleaner.
Hope this helps.
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On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Jim Baxter wrote:
=>Hi
=>
=>We do not seem to be able to run ftp from a shell script or script ftp.
=>The man page talks about macros but they go away at close.
=>What we need is the ability to start ftp, login and get (or put) a list of
=>files and
=>log off all from a shell script
=>
=>Can some one tell me how to do it or where to get RPM of another version of
=>ftp that
=>will do it?
=>
=>Thanks
=>
=>
=>Jim Baxter
=>MIS
=>Morrison Supply Company
=>
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