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...