Re: [PLUG] Script FTP session?

[fwph@sccs.swarthmore.edu (Frederick Heckel)]

On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 01:03:20AM -0500, Martin DiViaio wrote:
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> > Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2004 00:41:31 -0500
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> > Subject: [PLUG] Script FTP session?
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> > Sorry if this one is to easy, but can I control a (non-GUI / CLI) FTP
> > session from a shell script? Like send username, password, cd, put, get, and
> > then bye? Going farther how might I insert from the script timed pauses
> > between commands, like to wait five minute between the put and then next
> > command.
> > 
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> Look at the expect(1) and autoexpect(1) man pages.

I'd recommend checking out lftp as the client; i've used it with bourne 
shell in the past to automate transfers on solaris boxen. It's quite good 
at this stuff(and is generally a fantastic cli ftp client).

(fwph)

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