On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Joel Schneider wrote: > On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 10:03:38PM -0500, Doug wrote: > > I know I've done this in windows so I'm assuming it's possible in Linux > > as well. I'd like to set up an automated ftp job to send a file. Can the > > command line ftp in linux do this or do I need another tool? I looked at > > it a bit earlier and couldn't really find anything on doing this (man > > ftp etc...) or did I just miss something??? > > man expect > > or, if expect isn't already on your system, see the web page: > > http://expect.nist.gov/ > > or, if you prefer Perl, maybe use libwww-perl: > > perldoc LWP > Why do all this for a simple ftp script? KISS. #!/bin/sh HOST="ftpserver" USER="username password" export HOST USER /usr/bin/ftp -n <<-+++ open $HOST user $USER get remotefile.txt localfile.txt quit +++