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From: wyang@ktel.freenet.columbus.oh.us (William Yang)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: Batching FTP File Transfer
Date: 17 Nov 1995 11:20:51 -0500
Organization: The Greater Columbus FreeNet
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In article <47vrge$65n@news.easyinternet.ca>,
Tom Hill <TomHill@EasyInternet.ca> wrote:
> I would like to be able to write a shell script that would perform FTP
> file transfers on batches of files, from a BSDI server to a Mac running
> an FTPD host.
> Is it possible to do batched file transfers with the unix FTP client? Can
> these be automated the the FTP macdef feature?
> I would appreciate hearing from anyone who has done this.
> Thank-you.
Basic idea below. You can flesh it out as you see fit.
#! /bin/sh
FTPUSERNAME="anonymous"
# modify this appropriately
FTPPASSWORD="${USER}@this.should.be.an.e-mail-able.site"
# modify this appropriately
SITE=ftp.site.on.the.net
# add all the proper commands here. This is precisely what you'd type
# once you connected to an FTP site (less the bin and prompt commands)
FTPCMDS="cd /this/is/a/path
mget file1 file2 file3
cd /this/is/a/path
mget file4 file5 file6"
echo "quote user ${FTPUSERNAME}
quote pass ${FTPPASSWORD)
bin
prompt
${FTPCMDS"
quit | ftp -n ${SITE}