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[...] Mac OS X and Unix tips and tricks Â» Blog Archive Â» ftp by shell script Sometimes my sql is the only file that has changed on my site. So I have written a shell script that goes and grabs the sql file. (tags: FTP Mac Apple OSX MySQL Unix tips HowTo tutorials code programming scripts scripting) [...]

By: Chandrakant

Chandrakant — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 06:55:21 +0000

I want to echo the reply sent by FTP server…
i used ftp in shell script…
#! /usr/bin/bash
server=$1
user=$2
password=$3
ftp -n $server

By: Shawn Holwegner

Shawn Holwegner — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 02:25:53 +0000

Most 4.4-derived ftp clients can use the .netrc file for doing exactly what you’ve stated above.

A better (in my opinion) solution is to install NcFTP’s clients; ncftpput/ncftpget are designed to be scriptable in a situation where you can not use scp. As the post above me notes curl usage, I just happen to like NcFTP for it’s globbing and other abilities.

By: Aaron Dodd

Aaron Dodd — Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:11:29 +0000

I would suggest you chmod 700 since you store your username and password in the file. 755 allows anyone with access to your machine to read and execute your script.

By: Ted

Ted — Fri, 13 May 2005 06:45:51 +0000

curl is probably the best idea for this sort of thing on OS X.

However, you should also consider things like ncftpget. ncftp is a great command-line FTP client, and it comes with ncftpget which is an easy way to send command line requests for specific files.

You can also use rcp, scp, and rsync (as well as a number of other similar apps) for easy ways to pull down files.

All of these solutions are very portable to other OS’s too.

By: DS

DS — Tue, 22 Feb 2005 12:59:03 +0000

I’ve found a better way to upload and download files on a ftp server. Try using curl. It’s fast, easy and gives better results in shell script. For example :
curl -s -T /Users/me/Sites/index.htm ftp://me:passwd@ftp.server.com/
lets you send directly the file index.htm you’ve prepared locally in your folder “Sites” to your distant Web server. While :
curl -s ftp://ftp.server.com/“IMG*.jpg”
downloads every picture whose name begins with IMG and ends with the extension jpg.
In your case, you could try :
curl -s http://www.bradrice.com/mydatabase.sql -o /Library/Webserver/Websites/localsite/mydatabase.sql
See “man curl” for more…