Dear all, I am not sure if its possible but I want to FTP a file across to another computer - ok so that bit works - but the same script can be run from 2 different computers so I need to find out which computer I'm on first to know to send it to the other computer. Below is what I have so far but it keeps returning the old 'unexpected end of file' and I cant find the problem.Any thoughts very much appreciated. #!/bin/bash clear echo "Welcome to this script" echo " " sleep 2 # Prompt user for current show name... echo -n "Please enter a show name (with no spaces) \"showname\" " read showname echo " " #### Pretend this is hard work..;-) echo "Ok...working on it now " echo " " sleep 1 # Copy current file to 'file_showname' cp /this/is/to/copy /this/is/new/file_$showname sleep 1 echo "There is now a file called 'file_$showname'." echo " " # Overwrite the 'file_virgin file with the one we just created cp /this/is/new/file_$showname /this/is/new/file_virgin sleep 2 echo "'file_$showname' will be used as the file respol uses." echo "So now when you 'respol' the system will revert " echo "to the settings you just created." echo " " # Identify hostname so we know where to FTP this file to # Create a temp file to identify controller OUT=/the/temp/file/hosttext.txt >$OUT echo "$(hostname)" >> $OUT if grep thiscomputername /the/temp/file/hosttext.txt then filename="/this/is/the/localfile" hostname="theothercomputersname" username="user" password="pword" ftp -inv $hostname <<EOF quote USER $username quote PASS $password cd /put/it/here/ ascii put $filename quit EOF else filename="/this/is/the/localfile" hostname="thiscomputer" username="user" password="pword" ftp -in $hostname <<EOF quote USER $username quote PASS $password cd /put/it/here/ ascii put $filename quit EOF fi sleep 2 echo " " echo "OK..All done" exit 0

Hi, Make sure you're not indenting the EOF string inside your if. Once the format of this forum disallow indent, I'll use ..... instead. Look if bla bla then .....ftp -inv $hostname <<EOF .....ftp commands... .....quit .....EOF (wrong) fi And now: if bla bla then .....ftp -inv $hostname <<EOF .....ftp commands... .....quit EOF (right!!!) fi I hope this works. --- Fabio Berbert de Paula http://www.vivaolinux.com.br/