psm@manta.NOSC.MIL (Scot Mcintosh) (01/09/90)
I want FTP to execute a canned set of commands from a
local file as though I had typed them from the console.
None of the shell tricks seem to work with FTP. Can
anyone suggest a way to do this?
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Scot McIntosh
Internet: psm@helios.nosc.mil
UUCP: {ihnp4,akgua,decvax,decwest,ucbvax}!sdscvax!nosc!psmemv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) (01/09/90)
This works with Ultrix 3.1 (UWS 2.1) and SunOS 4.0.3 FTP. It may work for you. The keys are the ftp options "-i" to inhibit prompting during multifile transfers, and "-n" to disable automatic login. ftp -in <yer-file-here yer-file-here contents: open ftp.host.org user anonymous guest cd pub get README README-host.org --Ed
scott@csusac.csus.edu (L. Scott Emmons) (01/09/90)
In article <991@manta.NOSC.MIL> psm@manta.nosc.mil.UUCP (Scot Mcintosh) writes: >I want FTP to execute a canned set of commands from a >local file as though I had typed them from the console. You need to do two things to make this work. 1> set up a .netrc file in your home directory. The format is (At least on our flavor of unix, so you may wish to check documentation; but I don't expect it to be different...): machine <machine_name> login <login_name> password <password> for example, my .netrc entry for simtel20 is: machine simtel20.arpa login anonymous password guest 2> once the .netrc file is set up, you just redirect stdin into ftp from the file of commands, which MUST END WITH THE 'bye' COMMAND. for example if I wish to get the file "blather.tar-Z" from the "pd2:<unix-c.somedir>" directory, and let's say, deposit it in my local "ftp/unix/source" directory, my file would read: lcd ftp/unix/source cd pd2:<unix-c.somedir> tenex get blather.tar-Z bye and from the prompt: o% ftp simtel20.arpa <myfile That's all there is to it! Enjoy!!! -- L. Scott Emmons --------------- ...[!ucbvax]!ucdavis!csusac!scott ucdavis!csusac!scott@ucbvax.berkeley.edu