FTP in Shell Script

[Gene E. Dascher]

> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

	Have the script write to a file called .netrc in the home directory of the
user that is going to be running this.  Have the following information at
the top of the file:
machine <remote machine name>
login <remote user login>
password <remote user pwd>
macdef init
prompt

	The macdef init tells ftp that you are going to be using a macro.  Prompt
turns the interactive mode off.

After 'prompt', you list your ftp commands, (ie: put file1 file1)and when
you are all done, put the following lines at the end of the file:

close
bye

That is how it is done in Unix.  Do a 'man netrc' and see what that says.  I
have never had to use this in Linux, though.

Gene