Re: ftp get to stdout

["Ciaran Johnston" <cj@nologic.org>]

Ryan Mackay said:
> Sometime near Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 08:57:43AM -0600, Ian Melnick wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> Is there any way to use the 'standard' ftp in this sort of way?
>>
>>   ncftpget -c [options] remote-host remote-file > stdout
>>
>> I want to be able to pipe a download thru dd, but I don't have ncftp
>> installed on the machine I want to do it on (and I also can't get
>> ncftp for it...long story).
>>
>>
>> Thanks!
>
> wget supports ftp, maybe it could help :D

Or else something like this:

[cj@nologic scripts]$ cat ftpout
#!/bin/bash

TMPFILE=/tmp/tempfile

ftp $1 <<ENDIT
get $2 $TMPFILE
quit
ENDIT

cat $TMPFILE
rm $TMPFILE

[cj@nologic scripts]$ cat test
this is a test
BYE!!!
[cj@nologic scripts]$ ./ftpout nologic.org test
this is a test
BYE!!!
[cj@nologic scripts]$

All done with a .netrc file to prevent the need for username and password.

HTH.

/Ciaran.