BASH printf and ftp
 

Hey.
Does anybody know how can I forward login, password and some commands to ftp command?
I'm making a bash script that is intended to put some files on a remote server via ftp periodically.
I tried something like this:

but it just does not work.

Only:

does the job, but offcourse not whole job. This way I have to enter password and all the commands manually. That is not what I need.

Can anybody help me prepare printf command to make this work, please?

I apreciate all your answears.
Thank you in advance.
Best regards.

Use a "here" document. A few days ago this thread was active which shows how to do it.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ansfer-778515/

jlinkels

Yeap. I think it will do the job. Thank you jlinkels!

my first question is 'why not use scp/ ssh ?'

maybe expect can help.

Sorry but no, expect could not help me here cause this script was meant to run on "remote" Unix box, box where I haven't got Admin rights to install any new software. SCP/SSH, yes could be good idea, but I already have choosen ftp and solved my problem after I followed jlinkels post.

well, if you read the documentation for ftp you'll have heard of a
.netrc file.

this enables automatic ftp.