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- From: jamesd@techbook.com (James Deibele)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
- Subject: Re: anonymous ftp script..
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.051134.26068@techbook.com>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 05:11:34 GMT
- Article-I.D.: techbook.1992Jul23.051134.26068
- References: <1992Jul21.161626@ece.arizona.edu>
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- Organization: TECHbooks of Beaverton Oregon - Public Access Unix
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- mshah@ece.arizona.edu (Munil A. Shah) writes:
- > I want to transfer many files by anonymous ftp. And I want to do
- >it during the night by running a script. I am really poor with writing
- >a script. How can I specify ftp commands(login name,password,get,etc..)
- >in the script so that they should go run on ftp prompt and not on the shell
- >prompt.?
-
- Check out "autoftp", "batchftp" and "bftp". I got mine from
- oak.oakland.edu. They do a really nice job of describing the files
- available in their archives. autoftp only works with them, batchftp is
- a modfied version that works with other machines, and bftp looks very
- BSD-ish (ULTRIX and SUNOS as OS choices). Try archie for other
- locations if you can't get to oakland.edu.
-
- They didn't have the other part that I wanted, which was a front end
- that would take in requests from users and a back end that would notify
- them when the file arrived, but I guess I can write that ... The idea is
- to offload ftp transfers until the middle of the night since we (1) have
- mostly dialup users who have to wait for ftp to finish, then download it
- to their local system and (2) we have a slow link.
-