Redirecting input in a unix shell script?

Hi,

I want to connet to remote host only when I find a file in a given directory and than ftp code.

Pl help

what is the use of this line below its a scipting code
pls explain me briefly sir

ftp -n << EOF

the -n option tells FTP not to ask for user login information immediately.
as the man page says
'Restrains FTP from attempting auto login upon initial connection"

I am working in different host. I want to connect those two host through my Script. When I trying to do them in the command prompt. It is going through fine. But through the script, I am not able to do it. Please let me know the script

Hi,

How do I execute a shell script inside FTP commands.

Thanks,
Mani

when calling ftp -n <<EOF inside if loop it is giving me syntax error "<<" Unmatched

HI,
I want to save a spool file generated during exceution of shell script in UTF 16 format. Please suggest some way to implement this functionality. By default file is in ANSI format.

Thanks
Abhijeet

We are using SCO UNIX 5.05 and Informix-4gl 7.20; I would like to write a KORN shell script that will FTP file from Informix Server to Window environment and vise vesa. I have the following script but is is not working:
#!/bin/ksh
echo "OK starting now ..."
echo "lcd c:/payruns" >> $TMP_CMDS # where u want the files to get ftped
cd /u/fmutale/phaseI/bin
ftp -n -i 192.168.100.10 << !
quote user fmutale
quote pass xxxxxxxx
lcd c:\payruns
binary
put microfin433.unl
quit
!
echo "Right ending now ..."

lcd does not seem to be working.

How do you write SFTP from one server to another ?

Please help

I still can't have PUT my document from SCO UNIX to windows. We are using EWAN terminal emulator. Can any one please help ?

For what << EOF is used in unix scripting for sql statement.

Also, we have bdump area for oracle database alert log....for unix,linux,solaris,aix etc., what is the location.

i want to echco the text on screen and same time want to log the text in log file.
without any dublication of work.

kns, you're looking for the "tee" command. Type in "man tee" and you'll be a happy scripter!

I am trying to create a function to run in a users .profile in AIX UNIX that will FTP files that the user specifies. From the command line I want the user to only type:
sendtoftp username dateinfilename.

The filenames that will be sent via FTP are the same length and all have a common format (usernamexxxxdatexxxx.txt). The problem that I am having is that I want to make the second argument "$2" a requirement and evaluate the second argument to make sure it is a number or all digits. I have looked into using the POSIX [:digit:] character class but I am not sure how to go about using it.

Filename format example:
ban1194so09012010_1_1.txt
ban1194st09012010_1_2.txt
ban1194su09012010_1_2.txt
ban1283so09062010_1_1.txt
ban1283so09072010_1_1.txt
ban1283so09082010_1_1.txt
ban1283so09092010_1_1.txt

My function that I want to modify:
sendtoftp() {
case $1 in
ban11)
HOST=10.65.48.199
USER=ban11
PASSWD=ban11password

exec 4>&1
ftp -nv >&4 2>&4 |&

print -p open $HOST
print -p user $USER $PASSWD
print -p prompt
print -p ascii
print -p mput ban11*$2*
print -p bye

wait
exit 0
;;
@ban02 | ban03 | ban04 | ban05 | ban06 | ban07 | ban08 | ban09 | ban10 | ban12 | ban13 | ban14 | ban15 | ban16 | ban17 | ban18 | ban19 | ban20 | ban20 | ban21)

HOST=10.65.48.199
USER=$1
PASSWD=allhavesamepassword

exec 4>&1
ftp -nv >&4 2>&4 |&

print -p open $HOST
print -p user $USER $PASSWD
print -p prompt
print -p ascii
print -p mput $1*$2*
print -p bye

wait
exit 0
;;
*)
Message="Usage: sendtoftp username date."
Message1="Example: sendtoftp ban12 09012010."
echo " "
echo " "
echo $Message " "$Message1
echo " "
echo " "
;;
esac

I was too busy trying to make sure the above post made sense that I forgot to ask for help. If you can, please post examples of how I can make the second argument a requirement and evaluate if it is a number. Thank you in advance!

The fucntion works now! I couldn't figure out how to force the user to input a number for the second argument but I figured out a work-around to force the user to input two arguments. If they don't it will present a message telling them what they need to do. I also had to add a bogus option (xyzpdq) in front of the user names in the "case" section. For some reason the script ignores whatever is in the first position.

sendtoftp() {
if [ $# -ne 2 ]
then
echo
echo "--------------------------------------"
echo "| Example: sendtoftp ban11 09122010 |"
echo "--------------------------------------"
echo
else

case $1 in
ban11)
HOST=10.65.48.199
USER=ban11
PASSWD=xxxxxx

exec 4>&1
ftp -nv >&4 2>&4 |&

print -p open $HOST
print -p user $USER $PASSWD
#print -p cd directory
#print -p binary
print -p prompt
print -p ascii
print -p mput ban11*$2*
print -p bye

wait
exit 0
;;
@xyzpdq | ban02 | ban03 | ban04 | ban05 | ban06 | ban07 | ban08 | ban09 | ban10 | ban12 | ban13 | ban14 | ban15 | ban16 | ban17 | ban18 | ban19 | ban20 | ban20 | ban21)

HOST=10.65.48.199
USER=$1
PASSWD=xxxxxxx

exec 4>&1
ftp -nv >&4 2>&4 |&

print -p open $HOST
print -p user $USER $PASSWD
#print -p cd directory
##print -p binary
print -p prompt
print -p ascii
print -p mput $1*$2*
print -p bye

wait
exit 0
;;
*)
Message="Usage: sendtoftp username date."
Message1="Example: sendtoftp ban12 09012010."
echo " "
echo " "
echo $Message " "$Message1
echo " "
echo " "
;;
esac
fi
}

write a unix shell script to display time in am/pm format using "if/then","case","for loop" statements?

hi am sugandhi
i dono how to write this program please help me out.
please give me the answer soon