FTP script with user prompting/redirects/renaming

tazer92 · 05-13-2009, 11:56 AM

hi,

i am really new to scripting. i would like to know what examples i can use to have an ftp script created.

here are the objectives:

1. prompt to login to the ftp site
2. turn off prompt, switch to bin mode
3. prompt to go "cd" to a certain directory
4. prompt for a version number of the file(s)
5. prompt to create a download folder on the local machine

please let me know if this is enough information.

colucix · 05-13-2009, 12:11 PM

It looks like homework. What have you tried so far? What is not clear? Take a look at

Code:

man ftp

and you will find all the answers. For example to turn off interactive prompting when doing multiple file transfer you can try the -i option. Consider that in a script you can pass all the ftp commands as standard input. To do this use a so called "here document". Looking at the man page you can easily find the answer to the last question, which is maybe a "trick" unknown to a lot of people.