Shell Script and FTP

[ManagerJay]

I have written the following script to upload a small amount of data from our Regional Offices to our Headquarters office each night.

Backup_Name=`date | cut -c 1-3,5-7,9-10,25-28`.$HOSTNAME.tgz
tar -cvzf "/$Backup_Name" /users

ftp -n -i XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX <<SCRIPT
user XXXXXX XXXXXX
bi
put &quot;/$Backup_Name&quot; &quot;$Backup_Name&quot;
bye
SCRIPT

rm &quot;/$Backup_Name&quot; -f

The tar file is created and the data is transferred to the headquarters server, but the tar file created is not deleted.

Any ideas why the rm command is not running and what should be done to make it run correctly.

TIA,



Jay

 

[Guest_imported]

ret_rm=`rm -f /$Backup_name && echo $?`

if [ &quot;$ret_rm&quot; -gt 0 ] ; then
logger &quot;Failed to rm backup file.&quot;
echo &quot;Failed to delete backup.&quot; | mail me@me.net
else
logger &quot;Removed backup file.&quot;
echo &quot;Success: delete backup.&quot; | mail me@me.net
fi

 

[JohnLynn]

If you can use ncftp you will be much happier. It has modules built around command line ftp. I just did one and it work great.

john. g. lynn

 

[ManagerJay]

Thanks for the help. I put ` around the ftp portion and everything is working fine now.

Thanks again.



Jay