How do I check result of FTP in shell script

[another]

I have written a bash shell script that
uses FTP to get some files from a remote machine.
Is it possible to check result of each command in some way?
I there's an login failure or if the file transfer/connection is interupted I want to write that error information to a file.

The FTP part looks like this;

ftp -n -i <<-EXIT

open $REMOTE_HOST
user $REMOTE_USER $REMOTE_PASSWORD
cd $REMOTE_DIR
mget *.rdy
bye
EXIT

Any suggestions on this?

 

[MikeLacey]

Change this line of your script:

ftp -n -i <<-EXIT

to look like

ftp -n -i >/tmp/ftp.output 2>&1 <<-EXIT

and that will put all of the output from the ftp command into the file /tmp/ftp.output - you can then use the grep command to search for errors Mike
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