How can I write a shell script which do the ftp to host without promt for user/password... thanks

#! /bin/sh echo This will use a "here" document to embed ftp commands in this script # Begin of "here" document ftp <<** open anyserver.anywhere.net anonymous mymail@mailserver.net cd pub bin get anyfile.tar.gz bye ** # End of "here" document echo ftp transfer ended.

Or this example from 'Ben' using parens to nest a subfunction. Start: ( echo "user username password" echo "lcd /tmp" echo "Yet more ftp cmds" echo "Yet more ftp cmds" echo "Yet more ftp cmds" echo "bye" ) | ftp -vni hostname /tmp/logfile.$$ :end of script Hope this helps

The one script above doesn't work for me....the following one works... #!/usr/bin/sh ftp -n << EOF verbose open yourhost user username password get /tmp/stuff close EOF ##chupacabra

Use wget! Wget is non-interactive utility for downloading... Put something like this in your script: wget ftp://USER:PASSWORD@ftp.test.dom/pub/filename.tar That's all...