On Wed Oct 13, 2004 at 09:39:12 +1000, Alexander Samad wrote: >Just a suggestion why not use scp > >Alex > >On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 09:17:29AM +1000, Voytek Eymont wrote: >> I have a simple backup script like: >> >> cd /home >> >> for i in *.* ; do >> echo 'now processing' $i >> tar cfz $i.tar.gz /home/$i >> echo 'finished processing' $i >> done >> >> ----- >> at completion, I'd like to login to ftp and mput *.gz; >> how do I script ftp user/pass/commands ?
Well reading the man page for my ftp program you just specify these on the command line: ftp user:[EMAIL PROTECTED], but I just realised that was the man page on a bsd box, standard linux ftp program doesn't appear to support that. lftp appears to support something similar though. Cheers, Benno -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
