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scriptable FTP client

Answer 1

+6 A:

if you're on windows you can pass it a text file with the commands to execute...

e.g.,

ftp -s:ftptest.txt ftp.download.com

where ftptest.txt contains

anonymous
[email protected]
bin
hash
prompt
mget *.*
quit

Arnshea 2009-04-06 19:34:54

A similar technique should work on Unix as well.

Michael Burr 2009-04-06 19:45:56

Yep, it's hellaciously insecure but heh, security wasn't part of the OP :) Also, -A can be used in place of the first 2 lines.

Arnshea 2009-04-06 20:18:23

I can't use anonymous and it's not accepting a password from the file

BCS 2009-04-06 20:25:32

In the example [email protected] was the password. You'll need to change that to whatever the password is. Same goes for anonymous (change it to your user name). Don't use -A if you're not using anonymous

Arnshea 2009-04-06 20:36:19

That's what I was trying. As I said FTP won't take the password from the file. When I tried using stdin redirection, it gets to the password prompt and waits for input from the /keyboard/.

BCS 2009-04-06 20:43:03

Not sure what's happening on your system. You sure the password is correct? Also, make sure the text file is plain text (e.g., use notepad not wordpad). Works fine for regular and anonymous users on my XP system.

Arnshea 2009-04-06 21:18:19

try it for some non anon login. IIRC the same thing happens on Linux, so whoever wrote ftp thought getting a pw from a file/pipe was a "bad thing" (social engineering and all) and made it not work.

BCS 2009-04-07 06:31:46

Answer 2

+1 A:

WinSCP is scriptable

Mark Biek 2009-04-06 19:35:15

Answer 3

+1 A:

wget should work. Try:

wget ftp://domain.com/full/path --ftp-user=username --ftp-password=password

Yuval A 2009-04-06 19:36:53

wget had problems with wildcards

BCS 2009-04-06 20:09:05

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