ftp batch file

Discussion in 'Programming/Scripts' started by poisen, Mar 25, 2008.

  1. poisen

    poisen New Member

    Hey everybody,

    I wanna transfer a tar.gz that I've created to a ftp server automatically using a batch script that is run by a cron job. I just can't get it to work, googled around the last 2 days and just couldn't find anything that works. The problem is that when I open a ftp connection, I am asked for a username and password and I just don't know how to automatically get that entered.

    What I wanna do:
    Code:
    #!/bin/sh
    ftp xx.xx.xxx.xx
    username
    password
    put /tmp/filename.tar.gz
    bye
    
    maybe somebody can help me out here. I did get everything working before using scp, but this time the only possiblity is using ftp, sadly.

    -Eddie
     
  2. topdog

    topdog Active Member

    You can use expect to do that
     
  3. poisen

    poisen New Member

    Thank you for that info, also found another solution using ncftp :)
     

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