Multiple hostnames in .NETRC

[dsm325]

I know you can have as many hostnames as you want in a .netrc files.

Can you have the same hostname twice with two different user id, if so How will you script an FTP script.

Thanks much

 

[grega]

From the man page for netrc, it would appear that ftp will only use the first instance of a machine name in a file ...

Identify a remote machine name. The auto-login process searches the .netrc file for a machine token that matches the remote machine specified on the ftp command line or as an open command argument. Once a match is made, the subsequent .netrc tokens are processed, stopping when the EOF is reached or another machine token is encountered.

Greg.

 

[dsm325]

I will try that thanks so much for taking the time to answer my question.