how to automate ftp commands

[vaji]

hi friends

i need to take a backup from one remote system and send it to server through ftp
i need to automate these commands in a file by giving user name and password for database as well as ftp as argument

thougth i am having little bit of knowledge in shell scripts very new to ftp scripts
so help needed! it would be appriciated

Regards
Vajiramani

[Franklin52]

You can put the ftp commands in a here document.
An example:

#!/bin/sh

HOST='host.com'
USER='vaji'
PASSWD='passwd'

ftp -i -n $HOST <<EOF
user ${USER} ${PASSWD}
binary
cd /home
get my.pdf
quit
EOF

Regards