Scripting FTP transactions ... how?

Scripting FTP transactions ... how?

[Rabbe Fogelholm]

Hi all,

I have this seemingly trivial problem: I wish to do some FTP file transfers
from within a Bourne shell script that runs on top of CygWin and Windows 9x.

On Solaris, Linux etc I would use the plain old "ftp" command, possibly
creating a .netrc file on-the-fly if needed. This does not seem to work
at all with the Win32 FTP command. Furthermore, CygWin Tools does not
contain an ftp command either.

I did look around for some shareware client, but without success so far.

If I were doing only downloads (no uploads) I could get along with Lynx.
However, I need a solution for the upload case as well.

Any hints welcome! There ought to be a solution for a trivial problem
like this, only I don't know in which direction to look.

--Rabbe Fogelholm, Sollentuna, Sweden


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Re: Scripting FTP transactions ... how?

[Mo DeJong]

Try out Tcl-FTP.

http://home.t-online.de/home/Steffen.Traeger/tindexe.htm

Cygwin comes with a Tcl shell so it should not be hard to
get it working.

If you have not used Tcl before, you will need to do a little
learning, but it is well worth your time.

Mo Dejong
Red Hat Inc.

On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Rabbe Fogelholm wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I have this seemingly trivial problem: I wish to do some FTP file transfers
> from within a Bourne shell script that runs on top of CygWin and Windows 9x.
> 
> On Solaris, Linux etc I would use the plain old "ftp" command, possibly
> creating a .netrc file on-the-fly if needed. This does not seem to work
> at all with the Win32 FTP command. Furthermore, CygWin Tools does not
> contain an ftp command either.
> 
> I did look around for some shareware client, but without success so far.
> 
> If I were doing only downloads (no uploads) I could get along with Lynx.
> However, I need a solution for the upload case as well.
> 
> Any hints welcome! There ought to be a solution for a trivial problem
> like this, only I don't know in which direction to look.
> 
> --Rabbe Fogelholm, Sollentuna, Sweden
> 
> 
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Re: Scripting FTP transactions ... how?

[Heinz-Juergen Oertel]

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Rabbe Fogelholm wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I have this seemingly trivial problem: I wish to do some FTP file transfers
> from within a Bourne shell script that runs on top of CygWin and Windows 9x.
> 
> On Solaris, Linux etc I would use the plain old "ftp" command, possibly
> creating a .netrc file on-the-fly if needed. This does not seem to work
> at all with the Win32 FTP command. Furthermore, CygWin Tools does not
> contain an ftp command either.
> 

do the same here.
I use the ftp client
in /windows/ftp.exe

and call it
/windows/ftp -s:script host

with script something like:
user
passwd
binary
put file
quit


> I did look around for some shareware client, but without success so far.
> 
> If I were doing only downloads (no uploads) I could get along with Lynx.
> However, I need a solution for the upload case as well.
> 
> Any hints welcome! There ought to be a solution for a trivial problem
> like this, only I don't know in which direction to look.
> 
> --Rabbe Fogelholm, Sollentuna, Sweden
> 
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Re: Scripting FTP transactions ... how?

[Jeffrey Juliano]

On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Rabbe Fogelholm wrote:

> I have this seemingly trivial problem: I wish to do some FTP file transfers
> from within a Bourne shell script that runs on top of CygWin and Windows 9x.

If you're willing to get your feet wet...

I use ncftp ( ftp://ftp.ncftp.com/ncftp/ ).  2.4.3 configures/makes
out-of-the-box on cygwin.  Haven't tried 3.0.1.

(Not sure, but you may need terminfo and/or ncurses.  But they compile
OOTB, too.)

Also, it's mentioned on http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/ported.html

HTH,

-jeff


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RE: Scripting FTP transactions ... how?

[Rabbe Fogelholm]

Thanks all who contributed to solve my problem. I am truly impressed by
the alertness and competence of this forum!

I got suggestions to try the nctfp package ( ftp://ftp.ncftp.com/ncftp/ ),
Perl, Tcl-FTP, and the Win32 FTP client that comes with Windows 9x.

I had already counted Win32 FTP out, since simply running the FTP program
with standard input redirected to a file did not work, and since I did not
get any help when trying `FTP /?'. However, the -s:script option seems
to work like a charm. To get full control of the login sequence one
should also add -n, and the format of the script will then be like

open foo.bar.com
user gates
ePaCsTeN
cd /some/where
dir
quit

So, I will go ahead with Win32 FTP, and if I should hit new problems I
have a bunch of alternatives to try out. Once again, thanks everyone.

--Rabbe Fogelholm, Sollentuna, Sweden


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