Ah cool I didn't know that. I was trying to come upwith words in my head that 
would make sence.

Thanks.

Sarah the non unix user until now. lol
On Apr 9, 2010, at 4:43 PM, mani wrote:

> Sarah:
> Do you still have a problem or is this an older post?
> 
> You inquired about the EOF in an earlier post.  EOF is just a token,
> signaling the script to read from the standard input until it
> encounters that token.  Hence the EOF again in the last line.
> 
> HTH,
> mani
> 
> 
> On Apr 9, 4:34 pm, Sarah Alawami <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> I would like to thank everyone who helped. after much hair pulling i got it 
>>> to work.
>> 
>> 1. make my script in the usual way but the file is just for entering in ftp 
>> commands.
>> 
>> 2. this is where I got stuck.
>> 
>> open the .netrc file in the terminal.
>> open -a TextEdit.app ~/.netrc
>> 
>> and put this in the .netrc
>>  file.
>> machine ftpaddress log in userstring password passwordstring
>> 
>> leave a blank line between the entries and you are good to go.
>> 
>> 3. Now in the terminal type ftp ftpaddress and it should log you in.
>> 
>> Take care.
>> 
>> S
>> 
>> On Apr 8, 2010, at 12:43 PM, Chris Blouch wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> After a little googling and testing, this worked:
>> 
>>> ftp -n server_name <<EOF
>>> quote user cblouch
>>> quote pass xxxxxx
>>> binary
>>> put filename.xyz
>>> quit
>> 
>>> Of course you would put in your own server anme, username and password. I 
>>> just put this in a text file and then did a chmod a+x to make it 
>>> executable. Then I just did ./test_file to run my test file.
>> 
>>> Hope this helps.
>> 
>>> CB
>> 
>>> mani wrote:
>> 
>>>> If you don't mind, can you send me the script, as is, again?  Of
>>>> course without the original userid and  password.
>>>> You can send it to me offline if you wish.
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> mani
>> 
>>>> On Apr 7, 10:13 pm, Sarah Alawami <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>>>> no go. I did not even connect this time.
>> 
>>>>> Growl!
>>>>> On Apr 7, 2010, at 7:03 PM, mani wrote:
>> 
>>>>>> Oh no!  I know this is frustrating but can you try one last thing:
>> 
>>>>>> ftp
>>>>>> open ftpstring
>>>>>> user userstring passwordstring
>>>>>> ...
>>>>>> ...
>> 
>>>>>> I hope this works.  Once you solve this, can you tell me what the fix
>>>>>> was?  :)
>> 
>>>>>> mani
>> 
>>>>>> On Apr 7, 9:55 pm, Sarah Alawami <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>>>>>> I tried both ways with and with out the colen, even an equals sign 
>>>>>>> between things and still no go.
>>>>>>> On Apr 7, 2010, at 6:44 PM, mani wrote:
>> 
>>>>>>>> I am assuming you don't have the colon character after the user in all
>>>>>>>> the solutions I proposed.
>> 
>>>>>>>> mani
>>>>>>>> On Apr 7, 9:36 pm, Sarah Alawami <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>>>>>>>> still no go. I still got tha todd message. it is like it is not 
>>>>>>>>> seeing the username or pasword strings I type in. I don't want ot 
>>>>>>>>> type them in by hand each time hence why I'm trying to make the batch 
>>>>>>>>> file. It is saved right according to the google article I found. it 
>>>>>>>>> was a post on a blog.
>> 
>>>>>>>>> Take care.
>>>>>>>>> On Apr 7, 2010, at 6:11 PM, mani wrote:
>> 
>>>>>>>>>> Sarah:
>>>>>>>>>> Can you try
>> 
>>>>>>>>>> user userstring passwordstring
>>>>>>>>>> bin
>>>>>>>>>> ...
>> 
>>>>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>>>> mani
>> 
>>>>>>>>>> On Apr 7, 8:45 pm, Sarah Alawami <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> Ok I tried everything I could think of and this comes up on the 
>>>>>>>>>>> terminal.
>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> ftp.podbean
>>>>>>>>>>> Connected to ftphost
>>>>>>>>>>> 220 "welcome to ftphostFTP service"
>>>>>>>>>>> Name (ftp7.podbean.com:sarahalawami):
>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> I left the last thing in tact as it looked very odd.
>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> I think I'm close but I can't put my finger on what oculd be worng.
>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> Take care.
>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> S
>>>>>>>>>>> On Apr 7, 2010, at 5:16 PM, mani wrote:
>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> Sarah:
>>>>>>>>>>>> I think you have to do:
>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> ftp ftpaddressstring
>>>>>>>>>>>> user: usernamestring
>>>>>>>>>>>> passwordstring
>>>>>>>>>>>> ...
>>>>>>>>>>>> ...
>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> HTH,
>>>>>>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>>>>>> mani
>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> On Apr 7, 8:02 pm, Ben Mustill-Rose <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Just a stab in the dark, but where you have
>>>>>>>>>>>>> ftp ftpstring
>>>>>>>>>>>>> have you tryed
>>>>>>>>>>>>> ftp user:passw...@url
>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Someone correct me if I've got the syntax wrong, its been a while.
>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 08/04/2010, Sarah Alawami <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Hello to all.
>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I'm making a btch script to connect ot an ftp server. I'm very 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> close but it
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> would not type in the username and pass even thoug it is there. 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> here is the
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> script omiting the address usernamd and password.
>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Take  Am I doing something wrong here?
>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ftp ftpaddressstring
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> user: usernamestring
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> password passwordstring
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> bin
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> lcd desktop
>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> am I missing something here? sory about the odd info I filled in 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> there
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> places but yeah.
>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Thanks. and I am close I just don't know what I'm doing wring.
>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Thanks.
>> 
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