Subject: Re: ftp scripts
From: Arthur Corliss (arthur@corlissfamily.org)
Date: Wed Jul 10 2002 - 10:16:39 AKDT
> 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.
Why would you need to? There's a million tools that already do that,
from wget, LWP, to ncftp. And even before then, we always had Expect. . .
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