Ivan van der Merwe wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I need to do fequent ftp downloads. I would like to put
> this in the crontab if possible.
> In windows you can specify a file containing
> all the files that you want downloaded.
>
> Can I do the same on Unix
Of course you can:
ftp some.server.com << EOF
username
password
cd /some/directory
get file1
get file2
EOF
This is called a 'here is' document. But really it's much easier to just
use fetch. See the fetch(1) man page.
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