how to transfer required files from ftp server to local unix server?

Question

Hi i have to transfer files whose names consists of two variables X, Y and they are in the directory ABC in ftp server to my local unix directory XYZ. after transfering files i have to go to local directory path and i should untar (input files are compressed files) them.

one more thing i have to use username and pwd for connecting to ftp. and copying files to local server also i have to use my username and pwd.

everything should done automatically with unix script.

Help me...plz

ftp -n hostname <<EOF
user username pwd
cd ABC
get ls *X*.tar | ls *Y*.tar username1@pwd1 : XYZ
EOF
bye
for next in `ls *.tar`
do
tar -zvxf $next
done

will it work?

thanks in advance

Answer 1

I would suggest you just look into the manual of ftp command line ftp-tool and script with that.

Alternative: use wget to download the ftp-file to local machine, then scp to target machine, I suppose using public-key-authentication for ssh, that scp does not need a password, then it should end up simple like this.

wget --ftp-user=$USERNAME --ftp-password=$PASSWORD ftp://$HOSTNAME/ABC/$Y.tar
scp $Y.tar $SCPUSER@$SCPHOST/targetpath/$X.tar

Answer 2

Please try below code. Hope this helps you.

#! /bin/bash

cd local_path
USER='username'
PASSWD='password'
file_name='files'

for HOST in ftpserver
do
echo $HOST
ftp -n $HOST <<END_SCRIPT
quote USER $USER
quote PASS $PASSWD
bin
prompt

cd "remote_path"
lcd "local_path"

mget $file_name.gz*

quit
END_SCRIPT
done

#extract file
mkdir -p ../archive/$DATE
for HOST in ftpserver
do
        gunzip $file_name.gz
done