I am new to UNIX. my requirement is to log on to FTP server and get all the .txt files. i have developed one script by searching some forums but getting error and not able to fix them. pls see below code.
ftp -i-n<<EOF
open $FTP_HOST
user $FTP_USER $FTP_PASS
cd FTP_PATH
ascii
for file in `ls *.txt 2>> $LOGFILE`
do
if [ ! -f $file ]; then
echo " `date` Files were not received "
exit
else
lcd $LCK_IN_DIR
get $file
fi
done
bye
EOF
i am getting the below error when i run the script.
./ftp.sh[56]: syntax error at line 81 : `<<' unmatched
some how i have fixed that error. But script did not logon to FTP server automatically. when i run the script it is prompting to userid/password.
the EOF must be at the very beginning of the line (no spaces)
But regardless, your approach is sadly not the right one. Use "mget *" to get all the files. Your for-loop in the FTP command just wont work.
A standard alternative is to use perl with the Net::FTP module (search these forums for that). Another approach is with "Expect". Again, search these forums.
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require 'net/ftp'
user="anonymous"
pass="password"
server="localhost"
Net::FTP.open(server) do |ftp|
ftp.login(user,pass)
ftp.nlst("*.txt").each do |file|
ftp.getbinaryfile(file,file)
ftp.close
end
end
hi otheus, please see Download Ruby
Depending on your distribution, there might be a package manager that makes installation easy.
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sorry, HP UNIX does have Ruby by default. So unless you install it, you can try Perl instead. But judging from what you already have, you can simply use
I think ruby is not installed and I am getting error. Could you pls provide sample code using Perl. I have tried manually mget *.txt in FTP server. looks like mget is not working in FTP. Will it work with perl?
"looks like"? What is it actually doing? What does it say? Does it recognize the command at all? If you won't let us help you troubleshoot, there's not much point throwing code at you either; when it "doesn't work" too, we'll still be pulling teeth to try and find out why.
use Net::FTP;
my @serverip=qw/serverip1 serverip2/;
$fileextension="*.txt";
foreach my $serverip(@serverip){
my $ftp = Net::FTP->new($serverip,Debug=>0)
or die "can't connect";
$ftp->login("username","password")
or die "cannot login";
$ftp->cwd("/the ftp directory")
or die "cannot change directory";
foreach my $file($ftp->ls($fileextension)){
$ftp->get($file) or die "get failed", $ftp->message;
printf("done for $file\n");
}
$ftp->quit;
}
I have used your code accordingly. but getting the error at fist line itself like use: not found,my: not found,what i need pass in serverip1 serverip2? is that source IP and target IP? Also where can i pass the local server path to copy the file? where i can mention about ASCII mode?
Thanks
Arun
A corrected version of post #1 (in Shell) confined to those commands which you can use in ftp. Note that ftp is not shell and ftp has its own syntax (and we have only used ftp syntax within the shell here document delimited by the string "EOF").
Obviously you will need to set values in the first 5 variables to match your FTP server account and your local directory.
FTP_HOST="ftp_server_hostname"
FTP_USER="remote_username"
FTP_PASS="remote_password"
FTP_PATH="/remote_pathname" # Remote directory
LCK_IN_DIR="/local_directory" # Local directory
#
ftp -i -n <<EOF
open ${FTP_HOST}
user ${FTP_USER} ${FTP_PASS}
cd ${FTP_PATH}
ascii
lcd ${LCK_IN_DIR}
mget \*.txt
quit
EOF
Try the ftp commands manually, making sure that you have the remote directory name correct.
Could also try "dir \.txt" instead of "mget \.txt" for testing purposes.
Methyl,
Looks like FTP system is not allowing wild characters. Here is the output for dir \*.txt
ftp> dir \*.txt
200 PORT command successful
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list
226 Transfer complete
ftp>
but when i use dir or ls -l here is the output.
ftp> ls -l
200 PORT command successful
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list
-rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 656 Sep 30 19:00 R1_1380933_DATA_09292010135215.txt
226 Transfer complete
ftp>
Typing at the command prompt is different from preparing commands in a Shell script.
When typing directly at a ftp command prompt the Shell does not process what you type.
From a ftp command prompt you don't need the backslash character because we are not protecting the asterisk from the Shell. So, when testing without using a Shell script you need to omit the backslash.
I have tried without backslash from ftp command prompt. but the same results.
ftp> dir *
200 PORT command successful
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list
226 Transfer complete
ftp>
ftp> dir *.*
200 PORT command successful
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list
226 Transfer complete
ftp>
but file is displayed when i do ls -l
ftp> ls -l
200 PORT command successful
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list
-rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 656 Sep 30 19:00 R1_1380933_DATA_09292010135215.txt
226 Transfer complete
It think it should be mget *.txt instead of mget \*.txt , no?
The asterisk is protected from the shell since it is inside a here document (where there is only parameter expansion, command substitution, and arithmetic expansion)
