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From: tadguy@abcfd01.larc.nasa.gov (Tad Guy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: FTP Scripts
Message-ID: <TADGUY.90Aug8143249@abcfd21.larc.nasa.gov>
Date: 8 Aug 90 19:32:49 GMT
References: <1990Aug8.131319.21246@math-cs.kent.edu>
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In-Reply-To: eretherf@math-cs.kent.edu's message of 8 Aug 90 13:13:19 GMT

In article <1990Aug8.131319.21246@math-cs.kent.edu> eretherf@math-cs.kent.edu (Eric Von Retherford) writes:
> I would like to set up a unix csh script file that will run off the cron that
> will start up ftp and get a dir listing off the new xanth. Has anyone been
> able to do this? Our ftp manual pages seems pretty generic about all of this.

Since the content of ``the new xanth*'' is kept in /FILES.Z, it's not
too hard to make a shell script to retrieve it:

--------
#!/bin/sh

host=abcfd20.larc.nasa.gov

ftp -n -i $host <<EOF
user anonymous $USER
binary
get FILES.Z
quit
EOF
--------

The key is to use the -n option, and explicitly give a `user' command.

	...tad


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