Re: howto ftp a file to remote system

On 2007-03-14 01:46, Eric wrote:
Can anyone tell me a command line to upload just one file from my local
system to a remote? I'm using gftp-text, but that can change if someone has
a better tool. I need to do this completely *automated* in a script. Also
I dont have ssh capabilities (I wish i did, this would be a snap) so
I'm stuck with FTP
Thanks
Eric


You can create a file with name .netrc in your $HOME.

Then remove permissions for all others chmod go-rwx .netrc (Group Others -)

Now add a tag for each ftp host.

example:

machine thor.somewhere.com login eric password secret

Now you can do things as echo put file.txt | ftp thor.somewhere.com

But you can also add macros to .ftprc
I macro with name init will be run by defaault, example:

macdef init
lcd /local/storage
cd uploads
prompt
mput *


<the macro ends with an empty line>

You can also make a named macro, example index
macdef index
lcd somewhere
cd somewhere
put index.html


now you can make a script that just do

echo \$index | ftp thor.somewhere.com
and index.html will be published.

/birre
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