Unworking FTP transfer script.

[brunosimoes]

Good Morning,

I am developing a script for automaticli transfer using FTP, but the script is not working. Here is the script itself:

/usr/sbin# bash -xv ftp.sh
#!/bin/bash
ftp -in <<EOF
open <SERVER_IP>
user <USER> <PASS>
cd backup
mget *
mdelete *
bye
EOF
+ ftp -in
/usr/sbin#

What can i change in to make it work?

[brunosimoes]

Well, studyng a little harder, i've found out tha i was suposed to create a idependentend file with the ftp commands to feed the script. I've createda file named EOF, but i still have errors.

Contento of the "eof" file:

/usr/sbin# cat EOF
open <ip>
user <user> <pass>
cd backup
mget *
mdelete *
bye

Content of the ftp.sh file:

#!/bin/bash
ftp -in <<EOF
#open <ip>
#user <usuario> <senha>
#cd backup
#mget *
#mdelete *
#bye
#EOF

Script exiting screen:

:/usr/sbin# bash -xv ftp.sh
#!/bin/bash
ftp -in <<EOF
#open <ip>
#user <usuario> <senha>
#cd backup
#mget *
#mdelete *
#bye
#EOF
+ ftp -in
?Invalid command
?Invalid command
?Invalid command
?Invalid command
?Invalid command
?Invalid command
?Invalid command

When i copy and paste the commandds in the ftp command, it works just fine.

Anyone knows what could be happening?

[HROAdmin26]

Google is your friend.

There are many existing threads and tutorials on this topic.

[brunosimoes]

SOLVED!!!

#!/bin/bash

ftp -ivn << fim
open <ip>
user <user> <pass>
cd backup
mget *
mdelete *
bye
EOF
fim

It was an error in the component between te chair and the keyboard. Since im wasan't beeing verbose (-v), I could't see the workig FTP. And since the script cleans the backup folder, it was rright to send nothing tom me.