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need help to write a script to ftp a file and get an email confirmation or failure sent out.

Hi,

What have you tried and which problems did you encounter? Any details?

We are willing to help, but I don't think you can expect us to deliver a script/program from scratch :)

Have the ftp working need to know how to send an email to let me know if it succeeded or not. Here is the script so far:
#!/bin/ksh
HOST='xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx'
USER='username'
PASSWD='passwd'
ftp -n $HOST <<END_SCRIPT
quote USER $USER
quote PASS $PASSWD
cd /directory

prompt
mput file.txt

quit
END_SCRIPT
exit 0

I would like to send email using mutt as well, if possible.

Hi,

I don't use mutt, but this will give you an idea (I hope):

Code:

#!/bin/bash



HOST='127.0.0.1'

USER='username'

PASSWD='password'

FILE='filename'

TARGDIR='targetdirectory'

STATUSFILE="/tmp/ftpStatus.out"

MAILUSER="joe.doe@home.nl"



/usr/bin/ftp -in $HOST 1>/dev/null 2>$STATUSFILE <<END_SCRIPT

user $USER $PASSWD

cd $TARGDIR

put $FILE

bye

END_SCRIPT



if [[ -s $STATUSFILE ]]

then

  # ftp has failed

  echo "fail code goes here"

#  cat $STATUSFILE | mailx -s "ftp transfer has failed!" $MAILUSER

else

  # ftp succeeded

  echo "succeed code goes here"

#  mailx -s "ftp transfer has succeeded!" $MAILUSER

fi



rm $STATUSFILE

Both mailx commands are commented out, if you have mailx on your system it should work and you can remove the hash.

Hope this helps.

Thanks, I'll test it out and let you know how it goes.