ftp mget question

[DoraC]

Hi,

I tried to stack ftp mget commands within a script, but have found that it doesn't work... For example,

    mget test1*
    mget test2*

only retrieves test1* files, even though there are test2* files present. Is something syntactically wrong with this approach, or should I raher be doing

    mget test1* test2*

Thanks,
dora

 

[ecasadella]

Did you set Interactive mode off, if not, execute prompt.

EDC

 

[mrjazz]

Hi Dora,

please try the following script. But I have to sa that "ftp" is a very unsecure service (the password will not be encrypted over the network); can't you use the ssh protocol for transferring your data?

A few explanations:
ftp -n: does not attempt auto-login
prompt: interactive mode off
ascii: sets "representation type" to ASCII (I think this is the default anyway)

#!/bin/ksh

ftp -n << END

open remoteservername
user username password
prompt
ascii
mget test1*
mget test2*
bye

END

exit 0

I hope this is helpful.

mrjazz