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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!news1.cris.com!news From: Mark Hunnibell <hunnibel@cris.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.programmer Subject: Re: Batching FTP File Transfer Date: 11 Nov 1995 00:21:05 GMT Organization: Concentric Internet Services Lines: 54 Message-ID: <480q9h$ojo@spectator.cris.com> References: <47vrge$65n@news.easyinternet.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: crc3-fddi.cris.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1 (Windows; U; 16bit) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:1492 comp.unix.admin:35091 comp.unix.misc:19521 comp.unix.programmer:30860 Tom Hill <TomHill@EasyInternet.ca> wrote: >I would like to be able to write a shell script that would perform FTP >file transfers on batches of files, from a BSDI server to a Mac running >an FTPD host. >Is it possible to do batched file transfers with the unix FTP client? Can >these be automated the the FTP macdef feature? >I would appreciate hearing from anyone who has done this. I have a script that runs by crontab entry to get a series of files via FTP. You have to be a little careful with what happens next, because the FTP connection may fail. Nonetheless, here's how to do what you want. Assuming that your userid on the remote host (xxx.yyy.zzz) is userx and the password for the account is yuser, you can create a file with this kind of thing: open xxx.yyy.zzz user userx yuser cd /pub/applications get filename.1 get filename.2 quit Save the file as "ftp.script." Then, when you are ready to run this beastie, do so with this kind of command: ftp -in < ftp.script > ftp.output If you are just getting files, then you probably do not need to redirect the output to "ftp.output", but if one of the commands is to get a directory listing, then you will probably want it stored in a file. The application that I use this for is rather complex and requires two actual FTP sessions, one to get the directory listings and then the program analyzes them for new files and creates a custom script to start another FTP session and fetch just the new files. I hope that helps. Mark Hunnibell markh@connix.com ps... if you hear of a better way, please let me know, I might be interested in making some changes.