[buug] ftp in shell script

[Aaron T Porter]

On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 11:12:41AM -0700, Pong-TC wrote:
> Hello All
> 
> I am very new with UNIX.  I am trying to include ftp commands in my shell
> script, but it is not successful yet.  I want to ftp and grab files from
> another host, and then run other commands in the script file.  I have
> commands in my script file as follows:
> Other commands.
> [snip]
> The problem is that it always asks me to put my login and password.  It
> didn't automatically go through as I wish.  Can anyone please help?

	Check out NcFTP. I frequently use ncftpget and ncftpput for doing
what you're talking about. Many linux dists come with ncftp by default.