hello, I am having trouble creating a batch script to FTP a file from UNIX to NT. It seems that when I invoke the script, the ftp command invokes the interactive ftp interpreter and does not return control to my script. And there is no way that i have found to pass parameters to the ftp process to put the files... On Windows NT there is the -s parameter which specifies a file to use to obtain the ftp commands;however, that option seems to be missing on the UNIX side. does anyone have any suggestions and possibly a sample korn shell script to ftp a file without invoking interactive mode? I would think that this would be a common process so that ftp can be automated via scheduled scripts. thank you to any and all that may be able to help me; I am new to UNIX and can use all the help I can get! thanks very much (:

I cheated by scheduling a WS_FTP task on my PC to "pull" from UNIX, rather than using a UNIX shell script to "push" to my PC. Here is the DOS batch file which I scheduled: c:\ws_ftp\ftp95pro -p f10a -ascii plessf10.plano.esc.eds.com:/export/home/hzwbh7/stats/xmin.txt local:\dcjunix\auto.ftp\djprfst.csv cd c:\dcjunix\auto.ftp copy /A prev.csv+djprfst.csv next /A erase /f /q prev.csv ren next prev.csv erase /f /q xferlog.txt

This is dependent on the ftp client on your unix platform but the following should work on most: #!/bin/sh ftp -n -i remotehost <user username password get filename close quit !!

hi , here i have given the simple script to noninteractive script for ftp. try this out.. #! /bin/ksh TMP_CMDS=/tmp/niru/fcmd TMP_OUTPUT=/tmp/niru/fout echo "open machine ip" > $TMP_CMDS echo "user username passwd" >> $TMP_CMDS echo "cd niru" >> $TMP_CMDS #where the file resides echo "lcd /tmp/niru" >> $TMP_CMDS # where u want the files to get ftped echo "binary" >> $TMP_CMDS # mode ur selection echo "get filename " >> $TMP_CMDS #u can use mget for multiple files echo "quit" >> $TMP_CMDS ftp -vin > $TMP_OUTPUT if [ $? -eq 0 ] then rm -f $TMP_OUTPUT rm -f $TMP_CMDS fi Thanks, niru..

Hi, Additional question to this.. Is it possible to pass a shell variable to the ftp script..I am trying to get the filename dynamically associated with the ftp script. The filename could be passed as a shell variable.. Thanks Sam