FTP the file

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi,

I am dynamically getting the path of the file name i should FTP.

For eg: the files to be FTP'd are stored in a txt file like below

Run_20110420_124500/EventType_40000/4000/Run_20110512_120000.zip
Run_20110420_124500/EventType_40000/4000/Run_20110512_1200001.zip
Run_20110420_124500/EventType_40000/4000/Run_20110512_1200002.zip
Run_20110420_124500/EventType_40000/4000/Run_20110512_1200002.zip

So now how can i FTP all these files as i cant do a cat inside FTP.

Please let me know the ways to FTP all the above files.

Thnx,
Vinoth

2

If the text file is at your machine from where you need to take the files, then you can simply use a loop and do it.

If the text file is also at your remote machine, the i would first ftp files list to my machine then run the ftp for each file.

Why can't convince your client to use scp. It is better.

3

you can use this:

In filename u can write all file's name.

4 
while read file
do
ftp -nvi  hostname <<EOF
echo "user $username $password"
echo "bin"
echo "cd /pub"
echo "get $file"
echo "quit"
EOF
done < files_list.txt

file_list.txt is the file you have mentioned here. you may redirect the ftp messages to /dev/null