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?
>
The ftp in linux should do it ok. One possible method to ftp
in a script file I haven't seen posted yet would be the following
#!/bin.sh
ftp -ivn hostname <<END
user username password
insert commands here...
..
..
..
bye
END
man ftp or ftp --help for more info on commands and switches.
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