Hello Thomas,
Saturday, January 29, 2000, 2:45:00 PM, you wrote:
TKG> 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?
>>
TKG> The ftp in linux should do it ok. One possible method to ftp
TKG> in a script file I haven't seen posted yet would be the following
TKG> #!/bin.sh
TKG> ftp -ivn hostname <<END
TKG> user username password
TKG> insert commands here...
TKG> ..
TKG> ..
TKG> ..
TKG> bye
TKG> END
TKG> man ftp or ftp --help for more info on commands and switches.
Try using Expect.
Best regards,
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