Hi Friends,

I need to transfer file from linux to window m/c through ftp in daily basis. Daily file name change to today's date (e.g fullbackup_yyyymmdd) and previous date's file is deleted.

as i m not good in shell scripting. please help me how i can do this. I searched it and got following script -

#! /usr/bin/ksh
HOST='W.X.Y.Z'
USER='XXXX'
PASSWD='YYYY'

exec 4>&1
ftp -nv >&4 2>&4 |&

print -p open $HOST
print -p user $USER $PASSWD
print -p cd directory
print -p binary
print -p put ash.txt
print -p bye

wait
exit 0

but still getting error -

test_ftp: line 9: print: command not found
test_ftp: line 10: print: command not found
test_ftp: line 11: print: command not found
test_ftp: line 12: print: command not found
test_ftp: line 13: print: command not found
test_ftp: line 14: print: command not found

Also, i m getting this -
test_ftp: line 8: syntax error near unexpected token `&'
test_ftp: line 8: `ftp -v -n >&4 2>&4 |& '


where there is no space between "|" and "&"

Kindly help me.
Thanks
Ashish

install a package called "ftp-upload" onto your server and then use this bash script and put in in a cron.

#!/bin/bash
HOST='your.ftp.site'
USER='remoteusername'
PASSWD='remotepasswd'

ftp -n -v $HOST << EOT
ascii
user $USER $PASSWD
prompt
cd upload
ls -la
bye
EOT

Something wrong with sftp?
ftp is incredibly insecure.

1 members found this post helpful.

Was wondering the same thing...but since this thread had been closed for SIX YEARS before mawad71 re-opened it (with a script that didn't address the OP's original question), I didn't think it mattered.

Coffee is required.

Thanks T