Very Computer

by **Friedrich Dominicu** » Sun, 01 Mar 1998 04:00:00

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Lalit Jairath schrieb:

> i want to make a shell script that would log me on to an anonymous
> site
> and ftp a file from dir /pub/log to my cwd and quit from there.

> i use following but it doesn't work:

> #!/bin/sh
> ftp 131.104.112.4
> anonymous

> cd /pub/log
> get README
> quit

Use expect, I don't think you can do this kind of stuff just with
shell-skripts.Perl and other scripting languages will probably help too

Here's a small perl-script
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use Net::FTP

$hostname='131.104.112.4';
$user='anonymous';

$ftp_path='/pub/log';
$file_to_get='README';

# new object
$ftp=Net::Ftp->new($hostname);
# ftp login
$ftp->login($user, $password);

# change directory
$ftp->cwd($ftp_path);

# get the file
$ftp->get($file_to_get);

#quit the session
$ftp->quit;

I'm not quite sure if this really works, but a simular programm should
do.

Best regards
Friedrich

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