I'm attempting to make a batch file to upload a file to ftp server. If I type it in manually it works fine but when i run the batch file it halts after it's connected... it says
connected to domain.com.
220 microsoft ftp server
User(domain.com:(none)):
then nothing else. What the heck is going on here?
Below is my batch file:
ftp www.domainhere.com
user useridhere
passwordhere
put test.txt
bye
pause
Create a command file with your commands
ie: commands.txt
open www.domainhere.com
user useridhere
passwordhere
put test.txt
bye
Then run the FTP client from the command line: ftp -s:commands.txt
Note: This will work for the Windows FTP client.
Edit: Should have had a linebreak after the user name before the password.
Batch files don't work that way. They don't just "type" everything - they run system commands, in this case ftp, wait for them to return, and run the next command... so in this case, the interpreter is simply waiting for ftp to exit.
If you must use the ftp command, then prepare a script file (for example, commands.txt and run ftp -s:commands.txt.
But using cURL, or a PHP/Perl/Python/whatever script may be a better idea.
I would go with the cURL way as Jeff and grawity propose, but if your client is not scriptable, you could use Expect to automatically send it commands.
It's a reasonable idea to want to script an FTP session the way the original poster imagined, and that is the kind of thing Expect would help with. Batch files on Windows cannot do this.
But rather than doing cURL or Expect, you may find it easier to script the FTP interaction with Powershell. It's a different model, in that you are not directly scripting the text to send to the FTP server. Instead you will use Powershell to manipulate objects that generate the FTP dialogue for you.
Upload:
$File = "D:\Dev\somefilename.zip"
$ftp = "ftp://username:[email protected]/pub/incoming/somefilename.zip"
"ftp url: $ftp"
$webclient = New-Object System.Net.WebClient
$uri = New-Object System.Uri($ftp)
"Uploading $File..."
$webclient.UploadFile($uri, $File)
Download:
$File = "c:\store\somefilename.zip"
$ftp = "ftp://username:[email protected]/pub/outbound/somefilename.zip"
"ftp url: $ftp"
$webclient = New-Object System.Net.WebClient
$uri = New-Object System.Uri($ftp)
"Downloading $File..."
$webclient.DownloadFile($uri, $File)
You need Powershell to do this. If you are not aware, Powershell is a shell like cmd.exe which runs your .bat files. But Powershell runs .ps1 files, and is quite a bit more powerful. Powershell is a free add-on to Windows and will be built-in to future versions of Windows. Get it here.
Source: http://poshcode.org/1134
I had this same issue, and solved it with a solution similar to what Cheeso provided, above.
"doesn't work, says password is srequire, tried it a couple different ways "
Yep, that's because FTP sessions via a command file don't require the username to be prefaced with the string "user". Drop that, and try it.
Or, you could be seeing this because your FTP command file is not properly encoded (that bit me, too). That's the crappy part about generating a FTP command file at runtime. Powershell's out-file cmdlet does not have an encoding option that Windows FTP will accept (at least not one that I could find).
Regardless, as doing a WebClient.DownloadFile is the way to go.
is this script apply to SFTP connection? if it can how i want to write it?
thank you