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From: jeffo@uiuc.edu (Jeffrey B Nicholson)
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Subject: Re: FTP Scripts
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Date: 8 Sep 90 15:43:34 GMT
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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.

If you set up a .netrc file in your home directory, ftp will read that and log
you in automatically according to the name and password you give the file.

The format for the file is: (grabbed from our man page on the ftp command)
machine <machine_name>
pass <password>
login <login_name>
macdef <macro_name>
macro line 1
macro line 2
..
macro line n

machine <machine_name2>
{cycle repeats here}


>Thanks for any help.

Sure.

>Eric 

Jeff
jeffo@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu