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From: fitz@mml0.meche.rpi.edu (Brian Fitzgerald)
Subject: [unix-wizards] Re: controlling ftp process from a shell script or c program
Message-ID: <1991May21.052459.2169@ox.com>
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Date: Tue, 21 May 1991 05:24:59 GMT
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Archive-name: unix/shell/expect/1991-05-20
Archive: durer.cme.nist.gov:/pub/expect.shar.Z [129.6.32.4]
Original-posting-by: fitz@mml0.meche.rpi.edu (Brian Fitzgerald)
Original-subject: Re: controlling ftp process from a shell script or c program
Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN)


>I am trying to find an intelligent way to transfer files from 
>an ftp server to my account.  When I say intelligent I mean that

Try "expect".  The man page contains an example of how to do this.
Expect was written by a wizardly person in order to reduce such
problems to non-wizardly shell programming tasks. :-)

Get expect by anon ftp from durer.cme.nist.gov in /pub.  You also need
the tcl library, available from ucbvax.berkeley.edu in /pub.

Brian

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found expect ok
durer.cme.nist.gov:/pub/expect.shar.Z