hi there. my name is ashish and i am new here.

i am trying to synchronize a folder on a ftp server. but its not working. i was trying this with crontab. is there any other easy way to to do this.

many thanks

The usual tool to synchronize folders is rsync. cron is a tool for doing things repeatedly.

Can you be a bit more precise? For example, from where to where do you want to synchronize the folder. You mention crontab; what commands did you add to crontab? And what do you mean that it doesn't work; are there error messages?

#!/bin/ksh

sdir="/send/"
filename="*"
hostname="10.10.78.60"
username="xyz"
password="zxy"

ftp -in $10.10.78.60<<EOF
quote USER $xyz
quote PASS $zxy

binary
cd $sdir
get $filename
lcd $/pdf/
get $otherfilename
quit
EOF


i wrote this script. which i copied from a forum. but its not working. but i found that this script is for copying samename files from a folder and i want to synchronize a specific folder. for download and upload. we have different kind of files from our ftp server like jpg xls or pdf. please guide me what to do.

with regards
Ashish

I recommend bash instead of ksh

I believe you want to say -in $hostname.

If ist's more than one file, use mget. Actually, I would simply say mget \* instead of using a variable here.

This looks syntactically incorrect. I think you mean lcd /pdf.

Have you initialized this variable?

I don't understand this last paragraph. What do you mean with "samename files"? mget * copies all files in a folder.

Why not use wget? It would be an oneliner with wget.

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Truer words have never been spoken.
Or use rsync (I like to have the last word).

hi there... i have problem to synchronize a local folder with remote ftp folder. i have configured a crontab entry. which is synchronizing my local folder with remote folder. but i want to synchronize my remote folder/files into my local folder.

#!/bin/bash
HOST='10.7.3.184'
USER='vm'
PASS='vm'
SOURCEFOLDER='/disk1/ftp'
TARGETFOLDER='/test'

lftp -f "
open $HOST
user $USER $PASS
lcd $SOURCEFOLDER
cd $TARGETFOLDER
mirror --reverse --delete --verbose $SOURCEFOLDER $TARGETFOLDER
bye
"


Many thanks.

Sir i work with a company where we have to download files from ftp server. its newsprint company so time means a lot to us. now we need a person to keep looking into ftp folder. i want only that when someone put something into our ftp folder then the file start downloading by itself into my local drive but the below script is doing reverse. this script deleting the file on remote computer.

#!/bin/bash
HOST='10.7.3.184'
USER='vm'
PASS='vm'
SOURCEFOLDER='/disk1/ftp'
TARGETFOLDER='/test'

lftp -f "
open $HOST
user $USER $PASS
lcd $SOURCEFOLDER
cd $TARGETFOLDER
mirror --reverse --delete --verbose $SOURCEFOLDER $TARGETFOLDER
bye
"

Many thanks

You need to realize that this is a VOLUNTEER forum...this is NOT URGENT for us in any way. If you are employed by a company to perform a job, then YOU need to be in a hurry, not us. Telling us "time means a lot to us", doesn't get us to help you quicker. Also, if you're in such a hurry, you may want to consider actually posting WHAT PROBLEMS you're having, other than just saying "i have a problem", or "its not working". Those give us NO details as to what error(s)/message(s) you're seeing. If it's REALLY urgent for you, then HIRE SOMEONE to do this. You re-posted a question after SEVEN MINUTES, asking for help. We don't just sit here and wait for you to post.
Again, as has been suggested several times now, why aren't you using rsync or wget?? Those are the best tools for the job. And the very first hit in Google for "linux bash script to automate ftp transfers" is:
https://www.linux.com/community/blog...ersonal/386522

...complete with a working example. Change the commands to get the files and delete them. Since time means a lot to you, doing research on your own is a great place to start.

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