david@wubios.wustl.edu (David J. Camp) (08/31/89)
Since I originally sent this inquiry, I have determined that the problem
is with piping a file to ftp. I compiled the ftp from the tahoe
collection, and that does the same thing. I have changed my script to
generate a temporary file and ftp that, but it would be nice if this
problem could be fixed. -David-
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Subject: ftp from pipe broken
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 89 5:39:04 CDT
From: david@wubios.wustl.edu (David J. Camp)
I am trying to write a shell script that will accept a file on the
stdin, and ftp it to a file on a remote host. It requires that the
username and password be specified in the .netrc file. The necessary
ftp commands are written to a temporary file, and combined with the
stdin by cat. I find that when I am transferring a certain 1.6MB binary file,
the transfer aborts prematurely, and it attempts to read the rest of the
file as ftp commands. This of course gives me a series of ?Invalid
command messages, and the resulting file is corrupt. Any help would be
appreciated. -David-
----- start of fileput -----
#! /bin/csh
set host=$1
set file=$2
set mode=$3
set extra=$4
if ("$file" == "" || "$extra" != "") then
echo usage\: ftpput host file \[mode\] \< local-file
echo place an entry in \~/.netrc like this:
echo
echo machine HOST-NAME login USER-NAME password PASSWORD
echo
echo for each host with which you need to communicate
echo and type \'chmod 600 \~/.netrc\'
echo the mode can be ascii binary or tenex, ascii is the default
exit 2
endif
set MKSTEMP=`mkstemp /tmp/pt`
echo open $host >> $MKSTEMP
echo $mode >> $MKSTEMP
echo put - $file >> $MKSTEMP
/usr/bin/cat $MKSTEMP - | /usr/local/bin/ftp -vd
/bin/rm -f $MKSTEMP
----- start of mkstemp.c -----
/* mktemp.c -- program to generate a unique file name */
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
char * mktemp ();
main (argc, argv)
int argc;
char * argv [];
{
char filename [256];
if (argc != 2)
{
fprintf (stderr, "usage: mktemp prefix\n");
fprintf (stderr, "returns to stdout a unique file from the ");
fprintf (stderr, "template: prefixXXXXXX\n");
exit (2);
}
strcpy (filename, argv [1]);
strcat (filename, "XXXXXX");
mkstemp (filename);
fprintf (stdout, filename);
exit (0);
}
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