perrone@gatech.edu (Perrone Ford) (04/22/89)
Help me please!.... I am in need of a bit of information regarding the FTP program on a SUN 3/60.... what i need to do is to FTP a file to a remote host once an hour on the hour...using the "at" command most likely... now i need to pass the name of the file to send to FTP and I need to put FTP in verbose mode and dump what it says to a file....like FTP -Va_Args >> data.file... anyone ever do this kind of stuff? Perrone T. Ford | Bitnet : PFord@FSU.Bitnet arpa: Perrone@loligo.com.fsu.edu | ford@systems.fsu.edu
gretzky@unison.larc.nasa.gov (Mr. Stanley Cup) (05/08/89)
Here is a small example to handle the collecting of verbose mode's chatter. #!/bin/sh # HOST=name.of.host.edu FILE=/mypath/me/file # /usr/ucb/ftp -n -v $HOST << EOFTP > output 2> errors user the_name the_password type binary put $FILE bye EOFTP ==================================================== A better suggestion is to use BFTP [Background FTP] instead of FTP. It can be retrieved via anonymous ftp from venera.isi.edu. The latest version is BFTP.12. Questions regarding BFTP should be directed to Annette DeSchon (deschon@venera.isi.edu). If you use ftp at all, then this is excellent software to use. Yes, it is compatible with FTP. With the distribution, there *is* a BFTPtool. Pretty neat I might add. -=>gretzky<=- .mitch