RE: ftp scripts


Subject: RE: ftp scripts
From: Leif Sawyer (lsawyer@gci.com)
Date: Wed Jul 10 2002 - 11:04:02 AKDT


Mike Baker writes:
> 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.

Use ncftpget in batch mode.

Or use wget.

#!/bin/sh
wget -q ftp://myftp.host.dom/pub/path/to/my/file.ext
if [ $? == 0 ];
then
        echo success
else
        echo failed
fi

works great..

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