bash script AND ftp

bokini · 01-04-2006, 01:36 PM

Hello, im doing a bash script and during the script a need to send a file into a FTP, so my question is how to do that or where to start.

eldoran · 01-04-2006, 02:05 PM

'man ftp' is a start.. you can issue a command like 'ftp ftp://user

assword@host/path'. If ssh is available on the host - I prefer 'scp' because you can set up ssh keys and not have to deal with passwords. In any case - look at the ftp doc.

pixellany · 01-04-2006, 04:33 PM

You can put any legal bash command in a script. The trick is to correctly intercept the messages that come back (eg from ftp), and handle them in a predictable way.

Here is a utility that puports to help with this--I have not tried it.

http://expect.nist.gov/

Specifically for FTP, I am surprised there is not some kind of friendly front -end for linux---or maybe there is...