How do i skip the user login when i try to do a ftp in shell script? if i do the ftp at the command prompt, i will hit on the carriage return when the login is prompted. a normal ftp script would looks like this: #!/bin/ksh HOST='12.34.56.67' USER='userid' PASSWD='password' FILE='file.txt' ftp -n $HOST END_SCRIPT quote USER $USER quote PASS $PASSWD put $FILE quit END_SCRIPT exit 0

ftp -n -i $HOST !! user $USER $PASSWD hash bin put $FILE close quit !!

Create a file .netrc in your users $HOME dir write to that file: machine remotehostname login userid password useridpassword fill in the blanks for remotehostname, userid, and useridpassword. save the file and ftp to remotehostname

create a .netrc file with the following info in the $HOME directory of the user the script will be ran by. .netrc :::::::::: machine remotehost login username password pass123 Then: 1. create your primary script that gathers and sets the variables. Have that script dynamically create the temporary ftp script through set DATE=`date +%Y%m%d%H%M` echo "ftp hostname 1>/dev/null 2>&1 EOF" > tmp_ftp.sh echo "lcd /local/dir/of/files" >> tmp_ftp.sh echo "cd /remote/dir/to/put/files" >> tmp_ftp.sh echo "prompt off" >> tmp_ftp.sh echo "mput *.${DATE}" >> tmp_ftp.sh echo "quit" >> tmp_ftp.sh # Change permissions of your temp script chmod 744 tmp_ftp.sh # Then run that script you just wrote. tmp_ftp.sh # you can rm the temp script or just leave it so long as the first echo is redirected with a single ">" for overwrite mode and all others are ">>" for append mode.

thanks Satalink! but theres no login for the particular hostname that i want to connect for the ftp transfer. I cant leave the username as '' or '\\c'. It will cause error when i execute the script