ftp exit status.

UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
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Does ftp from unix have an exit status. In the sense after ftp is invoked and if the ftp fails during file transfer does it exit out with a status other than 0. What is do right now is invoke ftp and right it to a log and then grep for 'File Transferred Sucessfully'. Is this the only way to do it or is there a better way of doing this.
Also, I noticed that a couple of time my script did not process the part where it actually ftp's and returned as success. Any explanation as to why this happened.:frowning:

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Hi Oracle8,

Yep, try doing this:

if ftp -n -v IP.ADDRESS << END > ftplogfile.log
   user USERNAME "PASSWORD"
   cd location_of_file
   bin # if binary file
   get file
   bye
END
then
   echo "Ftp completed successfully."
else
   echo "Ftp failed. Examine log below."
   cat ftplogfile.log
fi

added code tags for readability --oombera