Re: Hands off ftp

[Bruce Smith <bruce@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I want ot do ftp operations with a script, maybe kicking off
> that script from a cron job.

For ftp in a script, I use the "ncftp" client instead of "ftp".
It works great, and comes standard with Redhat.  i.e.

   ncftp -a ftp.somesite.com:/pub/somewhere/file.txt

Will download "/pub/somewhere/file.txt" from "ftp.somesite.com".
"-a" will automatically do an anonymous login.

Other useful options are "-r -d 5" to keep trying a busy/full 
ftp server every 5 seconds until it works.  You can also do 
recursive downloads of entire directory structures.

A better ftp client, IMO.

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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