FTP question

[babeo]

Hi
could anyone show me how to do this please?
I want to have a cron job to do the ftp from 1 Sun box to another and grab files with current date. Everything is put in a script, but I don't know how to make ftp automatically enter username and password at the ftp command. Here is what I want to do:


mySunbox>ftp 123.456.78.90
(enter username is: babeo
password: babeo)
lcd /NewFile
# I want to set the local directory at NewFile to save my
# ftp files in here

cd /TodayFile
# I want to change to the directory TodayFile

mget file$mmdd*
sleep 180
quit
==================
Thanks

 

[grega]

I'm not at a unix box here, but from memory you need a .netrc file in the home directory of the the user executing the command. This file should have a line containing the machine name, login and password, e.g.

remoteserver joebloggs password

Try a man netrc to see if that helps. I'll post again tomorrow from work if you still need help.

Greg.

 

[babeo]

Hi Greg

I have tried to modify the FTP part in my sript, and add information in the .netrc file. Here it is:

(file .netrc
machine 123.456.78.90 login babeo password babeo)

ftp <<!
open 123.456.78.90
user babeo babeo
quit


But when I run it, I still get error:

Login incorrect.
Login failed.

2) by the way, I set the variable TODAY = date '+%d%m' and substitute TODAY in the command &quot;mget file$TODAY*&quot; will it work?
Thanks

 

[grega]

Can you post a copy of your script here?

Once you have .netrc created, you don't have to specify any login information to ftp, so you do something like;

ftp 123.456.78.90 <<!
mget file$TODAY*
!

The line in .netrc will login automatically (assuming you have username & password correct!)

This also assumes you have set the value of TODAY in the shell using TODAY=`date +%d%m`

The mget should work ... in your case (for today) it will get all files matching the pattern file1503*

Post back if you still have problems.

Greg.