Check this out it can be of good help.
http://www.users.qwest.net/~eballen1/scripting.ftp.html
Also you can achive much more then this using "expect".
Animesh.
--- Vinayakam Murugan mvinayakam@gmail.com wrote:
can uploading and downloading of files be automated by the shell
scripts
in any way?
IIANM, VSFTP is a FTP server. Which client are you using? Try ncftp.
ncftp -u <username> -p <password> <hostname>
you can automate it further using ncftpput and ncftpget.
-- Warm Regards
Vinayak http://theregoesanotherday.blogspot.com/ -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
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