I am not sure if there is a command or really easy way I can do this but I am looking to have the ability to FTP to a remote computer and transfer over *.whatever files then have those files either moved or deleted after the transfer is complete.

Is there an easy way to do this or a script/program I could use that I am missing?

Thanks for any help in advance!

Well, it all depends on which language and which OS you use... basically you can exec ftp with stdin attached to a pipe, use that to send commands, and then when the ftp process ends perform the other actions.
If you prefer, perl, tcl and others have native ftp libraries, so you can avoid forking.

check out the expect scripting language, it's designed for automating interactive tasks.

I'm using LFTP (http://lftp.yar.ru/) with Linux and it works fine. Here is an example from the shell script this is from. I run this from crontab.

I have it deleting the uncompressed backupfile that i get when I backup my DB using mysqldump but you can have it delete anything you want.

The $mdate puts the current timestamp on my files (which it gets earlier in the script).

If you plan on using lftp make sure /usr/local/bin is in your path and its exported.

lftp <<EOF
open yourftpserverhere
user USERNAME PASSWORD
pwd
put dbname-$mydate.tar.gz
bye
EOF
rm /dir1/dir2/dir3/dir4/backup.sql

that's quite cool ftp client, nice!

Yeah I really like it = )

LOL i love it when u see some cool program, and then go type 'man that_cool_program' hoping it's already installed and it is