Bash script ftp files

This is totally confusing. How do I get out of this End-Of-Session thing? Why not input directly to the ftp prompt that comes without that? Pelle Nilsson Pelle Nilsson 8 8 silver badges 9 9 bronze badges. This is the simplier solution. But neither is lftp. Install ncftpput and ncftpget. They're usually part of the same package. Paul Tomblin Paul Tomblin k 56 56 gold badges silver badges bronze badges.

Adam the "connection won't be encrypted" etc is a consequence of using FTP, which was specified in the question. It's going to happen no matter what FTP client you use. Chizhik Chizhik 1 1 silver badge 1 1 bronze badge. Which version of ftp are you using? It does not work on ubuntu 18 — synek Use this to upload a file to a remote location:! Shal Shal 5 5 silver badges 7 7 bronze badges. This is a fairly late answer to not be using.

An explanation would be in order. For example, how is it different from previous answers? At the moment this writes to a file 'ftp' and doesn't spawn an ftp process — Brian Agnew. Also, hardcoding passwords in cleartext is a bad idea. I'm sure the password issue is for illustrative purposes — Brian Agnew. Load Comments. What's New. Most popular in Linux-Unix. More related articles in Linux-Unix. We use cookies to ensure you have the best browsing experience on our website.

Start Your Coding Journey Now! Login Register. Is there anything cleaner than that? I know this is an old one, but you can also pass arguments to a command with a Here Document. You said that you are not interested in other tools, but scp is a much better choice for unattended file transfers. Here is an scp example:. I don't know how sftp was configurable when this question was asked. Anyway, 6 years later, you can put sftp-commands like PUT into a file and then reference this file in your initial sftp-call.

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Shell Scripting for creating ftp and transfer file. Preeti Saini. Registered User. Join Date: Aug Dear All, We run backup script to update backup file every hour.

I want to create a script, which transfer these files in another server using ftp as new backup file created every hour. Files should be stored with a unique name for every hour e.

Please let me know how can I create script for that. It would be very thankful l if anybody help me on this. Please check similar posts at the bottom of this page. You should get some idea on the approach.

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