could u pls send me the code on how to ftp thru shell script????

what you need to do is test for the exit status of the ftp command in a subshell first set a variable to be the exit status of ftp -n -i; if it is 0 everything is ok, if it is greater than 0, problem. soooo.... $var=`(ftp -n -i $REMOTE_HOST; echo $?)` if [$var -eq 0] ; then user xxxxx pass xxxxx elif [$var -gt 0] ; then echo "Could not connect to $REMOTE_HOST"

You can also write script like this: #!/bin/sh OUT=/user/out {FTP FROM} FTPTO=192.XXX.XXX.XX INPUT=/user/abc {FTP TO} cd /user echo "user XX{login} XX{passwd}">$OUT/123.out echo "cd $INPUT/123" >> $OUT/123.out echo "bi">> $OUT/123.out echo "mput *" >>$OUT/123.out echo "bye" >> $OUT/123.out ftp -n -i $FTPTO < $OUT/123.out rm -f $OUT/123.out echo "FTP 123 Done" ***Hope this can help u