Very Computer

>|> I am trying to run FTP with a fixed script from cron, to bring my mail  
>|> spool home over a SLIP line.  The problem, of course, is that my  
>|> /usr/ucb/ftp (and most others I have seen) cannot source either a here
>|> document or an executable shell from the command line.  Does anyone know a  
>|> simple way (without getting too deeply into perl or tcl or whatnot) to  
>|> make ftp do automatically what it would do by hand if I typed:
>|>
>|> open foo.brown.edu
>|> username burton
>|> password XXXXXXXX
>|> cd ~/somewhere
>|> mget stuff
>|> bye
>|>
>|> Please reply by mail---I'll summarize.  Thanks!
>|>

>You may want to try something like

>ftp -i -n foo.brown.edu < ftpscript
>rm -f ftpscript

>where "ftpscript" contains all commands you would
>normally have typed by hand. This seems to work
>under hp-ux on a hp 9000/735.

>Ernst

>>|> I am trying to run FTP with a fixed script from cron, to bring my mail  
>>|> spool home over a SLIP line.  The problem, of course, is that my  
>>|> /usr/ucb/ftp (and most others I have seen) cannot source either a here
>>|> document or an executable shell from the command line.  Does anyone know a  
>>|> simple way (without getting too deeply into perl or tcl or whatnot) to  
>>|> make ftp do automatically what it would do by hand if I typed:
>>|>
>>|> open foo.brown.edu
>>|> username burton
>>|> password XXXXXXXX
>>|> cd ~/somewhere
>>|> mget stuff
>>|> bye
>>|>
>>|> Please reply by mail---I'll summarize.  Thanks!
>>|>

>>You may want to try something like

>>ftp -i -n foo.brown.edu < ftpscript
>>rm -f ftpscript

>>where "ftpscript" contains all commands you would
>>normally have typed by hand. This seems to work
>>under hp-ux on a hp 9000/735.

>>Ernst
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>#!/bin/sh
>if test $# -eq 0
>then
>        echo "Usage: `basename $0` file_1 [ file_2 ... ]"
>        exit 1
>else
>        ( for i in $*
>        do gawk '{ print $0 ; if( ($1 == "open") ){system("sleep 7")} }' $i | ftp -i -n
>        done )
>        exit 0
>fi      
>-------cut here--------cut here----------cut here-------cut here-----------
>-the structure of "file_?" are:
>open <hostname>
>user <user_name> <password>
><command>
>   .
>   .
>   .
>   .
>--