i did this, but it was a LOOOONG time ago, and it was on a sunos machine.
this was before linux ever existed, in fact. i did use a here file, btw.
check out expect; you can use it either with perl or tcl. if you don't know
perl, this would be a good excuse to learn it. :-)
pete
begin: Rick O'Shaughnessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> quote
>
> I set up a .netrc in ~ with the following:
>
> machine machine_name
> login login_id
> password something_secret
>
> ...then I don't need to authenticate through the script at all.
>
> Check netrc(5).
>
> Rick
>
>
> Jay Strauss wrote:
> >
> > Is there anyway to ftp within a shell script. I can't make it past the
> > login. for example:
> >
> > #!/usr/bin/ksh
> > ftp lawprd01<<EOF
> > jstrauss
> > password
> > EOF
> >
> > > ./tmp
> > Password:Name (lawprd01:jstrauss):
> > Login incorrect.
> > Login failed.
> > ?Invalid command
> >
> > Jay Strauss
