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jfrancis 09-14-2011 07:35 PM
Scripting to copy FTP files between servers
 
I'd like to know if there is an example of writing a script to copy files from one server to another using FTP?

qlue 09-15-2011 12:59 AM
Try using wget from the target server
http://www.editcorp.com/Personal/Lar...v1/wget_7.html

colucix 09-15-2011 01:35 AM
Or use a here document:
Code:
ftp -ni ftp.address.or.ip << EOF 1> $HOME/ftp.log 2> $HOME/ftp.err
  user username password
  binary
  put file
  bye
EOF
Another tool that has much more flexibility than the standard ftp client is lftp. In this case you can use a subshell to generate the commands and pipe them to lftp:
Code:
(
  echo open ftp.address.or.ip
  echo user username password
  echo binary
  echo put file
  echo bye
) | lftp -f /dev/stdin

j-ray 09-15-2011 01:37 AM
in Perl you can do as described here

http://search.cpan.org/~gbarr/libnet-1.22/Net/FTP.pm

rodrifra 09-15-2011 01:47 AM
If you want to use colucix's script and avoid using the user and the password in your script you can use ~/.netrc to store your ftp users and passwords, and protect just that file from curious eyes. Its format is:

machine your.ftp.to.store login your_user password your_password

By the way, lftp allows you to put all the info as parameters and not having to pipe results to it. It would be something like

lftp [ftp|sftp|ftps]://your.ftp.machine -u your_user,your_pass 2>&1 > bla bla bla

schneidz 09-15-2011 10:55 AM
is it possible to just use scp with keys or are you married to ftp ?


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