Re: autoup.sh & considerations on bail-out scripts
David Welton <davidw@gate.cks.com> writes:
> Hi, when looking through autoup.sh, I noticed something that may be a
> problem. to wit, it seems as if it depends on ncftp for its ftp
> method. First and foremost, this presents the problem that ncftp is
> not free (open, I guess I should say:-), and is not on our official
> CD. Second of all, I think it would be better to utilize something
> that is more commonly available.
>
> It seems as though the only way to execute a script non interactively
> with plain ftp is with the use of a .netrc file. The script could
> check to make sure the file does not exist, ask the user to create it,
> write the commands to the file, and run ftp, cleaning it up
> afterwards.
At least in bash 2.01 this works:
i = /debian/dists/unstable
ftp -n -i << EOF
o ftp.de.debian.org
user ftp jens@
cd $i
pwd
dir
EOF
this isn`t a third option, is it? :-)
HTH,
Jens
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