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pshankland

03-23-2006 11:24 AM

Scripting FTP Help

I am trying to script FTP so I can take a .tar file that I created and ftp it through to a Windows FTP server.

I have the following line in the script I created to create the tar file:

Code:

FTP < /scripts/ftpscript

And then in ftpscript I have:

Code:

open xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

<username>

<password>

put *.*

bye

Problem is that this all works but the script just sits there waiting for a password.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

jjohnston62

03-23-2006 01:55 PM

scripted ftp........

Include ftp commands within the script, and process them with ftp -n

for example:

HOST='site.domain.com'
USER='username'
PASSWD='secret'
ftp -n $HOST
quote USER $USER
quote PASS $PASSWD

include all that in a shell script, and then execute your put $FILE command.

don't try to run the script through FTP

pshankland

03-24-2006 02:46 AM

Thanks. Have now got the following just in my shell script:

Code:

FTP_HOST=172.xxx.xxx.xxx

FTP_USER=username

FTP_PASS=password



ftp -n $FTP_HOST

quote USER $FTP_USER

quote PASS $FTP_PASS

put $BACKUP_FILE

bye

But just get the script sitting at:

Code:

2200 <FTPSERVER> Microsoft FTP Service (Version 5.0).

ftp>

And I have to manually type quit to end the script without it finishing.

Pete.

nx5000

03-24-2006 05:06 AM

Code:

#!/bin/sh

ftp -n web.site.com << EOF

user foo foo_password

cd /some/dir

bin

mget some_file

bye

EOF

Should work. It does for me

pshankland

03-24-2006 06:07 AM

Cheers nx5000, that worked fine :)

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