Subject: Re: ftp scripts
From: Jared Armstrong (jared@alyeskaresort.com)
Date: Wed Jul 10 2002 - 10:37:10 AKDT
You can use cron to schedule the transfer, then use expect with ftp, or ftp
in non-interactive mode (the -i and -n command line options).
If you don't already have it, expect is available here:
http://expect.nist.gov/
The O'Reilly book is also a very nice resource.
On Wednesday 10 July 2002 09:47, Mike Baker wrote:
> Is there a mechanism to have an ftp script in linux like there is in
> Windows. I want to log into a number of computers to ftp some data
> extracts. I have batch files in windows that I can schedule and figure
> that there must be a way to do this in Linux also. In windows you pass a
> command file to ftp that it reads and then executes the commands in order.
> When I do a man ftp I don't see this option.
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Mike
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