automating ftp session

[dwcasey]

I've got the following script that is not working. Trying to automate an ftp session. I've got a simple ls command in there to just see if I can get connected and do a file listing.

#!/bin/ksh -x

HOST='server01.domain.com'
USER='joe'
PASSWD='letmein'

ftp -inv $HOST << "EOF"
user $USER
$PASSWD
ls
bye
EOF

I fails at the user/pass. I've tried

user $USER $PASSWD

user $USER
pass $PASSWD

If I do it by hand, I get:

server22:/usr/local/bin # ftp server01
Connected to server01.domain.com.
220 server01 FTP server (Version 4.1 Tue May 15 16:38:46 CDT 2001) ready.
Name (server01:root): joe
331 Password required for joe.
Password: xxxxx
230 User joe logged in.
ftp> bye
221 Goodbye.

 

[Chapter11]

Look into a file named .netrc

 

[dwcasey]

That's good if I'm hitting another AIX box, but what if I want to drop these files on an Windows box?

 

[iribach]

.netrc is good, i prefer ssh
your probl is the newline between
$user and $passwd
try:

ftp -inv $HOST << EOF
user $USER $PASSWD
ls
bye
EOF

 

[BobMCT]

You may also want to look into Expect which is available for AIX. It is a scripting language that allows examination of responses and altered logic based on results. We do all our ftp I/O with this and it works very well under varying conditions and situations.


Bob

 

[RMGBELGIUM]

try using a perl script :

We connect to the Mcafee ftp for updates for our Av, every 30 min through a proxy server.

here's a snippet of the code

$ftp=Net::FTP->new("IPadress of proxyserver",Debug => 1)|| die "$@ can't connect\n";
$ftp->login('anonymous@ftp.nai.com','user@mail.com');
print "Connection succeeded";
$ftp->cwd("/pub/antivirus/datfiles/4.x");
$ftp->binary();
@dirlist = $ftp->ls();
and so on...

greetz,

R.

 

[raztaboule]

I 'va got this problem trying to ftp to a windows server.
Doing as below solve it for me.

echo "user domain/username password" >> FILE
echo "ftp commands" >> FILE
echo "quit" >> FILE
ftp -vgin hostname < FILE
rm FILE


Bye

 

[screwloose]

You cannot use the here-document like <”EOF” and end it like <EOF ; it would have to end <”EOF”

The best way to do it is <-EOF and end it <-EOF ---- note the (-)

Also enclose your ftp in parentheses () and tab your lines between the first and last lines.

 

[screwloose]

For example:

#!/bin/ksh

for i in $(cat /tmp/solarishosts)
do
(
ftp -i -n -v $i <<-EOF
user USER PASSWORD
bin
cd /export/home/USER
put metacheck
bye
EOF
)
done