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Hi, I made a shell script with the following piece of code to transfer some files via ftp: Code: echo 'before ftp' ftp -n $FtpHost << EOF quote USER $FtpUser ...
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    Shell script terminated after ftp transfer

    Hi,
    I made a shell script with the following piece of code to transfer some files via ftp:

    Code:
    echo 'before ftp'
    
          ftp -n $FtpHost << EOF
            quote USER $FtpUser
            quote PASS $FtpPasswd
            quote CWD $FtpDir
            put $FileNameLog
            put $FileNameSqlTarSum
            put $FileNameSqlTar
            put $FileNameWwwTarSum
            put $FileNameTar
            quit
          EOF
    
    echo 'before rm'
            
          rm $FileNameWwwTar $FileNameWwwTarSum $FileNameSql $FileNameSqlTar $FileNameSqlTarSum $FileNameLog
    
    echo 'after rm'
    The problem is that the script ends after the "quit" command in FTP, so code after it won't run, like the remove of temporary files. If I remove this "quit" command, the shell understands I'm still parsing commands to FTP, although being after the EOF. I used this echo commands to check which parts of the script are running.

    Do somebody have a clue of why is this happening?

    Thank you,
    Josep Maria

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    Found a workaround to solve it.
    There's a problem with the EOF here-doc, it must not be indented. Although, problem persist after removing the space.
    Using ncftpput command instead of ftp is much easier, so now the code looks like this:

    Code:
            ncftpput -u $FtpUser -p $FtpPasswd $FtpHost $FtpDir $FileNameWwwTar $FileNameWwwTarSum $FileNameSqlTar $FileNameSqlTarSum
    
            rm $FileNameWwwTar $FileNameWwwTarSum $FileNameSql $FileNameSqlTar $FileNameSqlTarSum $FileNameLog

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