Re: non-interactive ftp

[wagnerc@plebeian.com (Chris Wagner)]

I would use Expect for this.  Another option is to use Perl's ftp module.
You could replace ur entire system with a perl script.

At 06:57 PM 11/27/2005 +0100, Christian wrote:
>i'm trying to write a backup script which is directly saving the
>valueable data to my ftp-backup space. i was going to use ncftpput, 
>because it lets me do this:
>
>tar cvf - /home | ncftpput -u operator -c server /backups/monday.tar
>
>so i can backup direct to my backup space without saving it to the local 
>disk (which is a good thing, as content grows...). but this way i also 
>have to rotate the backups on the backup space. only ftp is allowed on the 
>backup server and ncftp* does not allow me to send non-RAW ftp command (or 
>i'm too dumb to parse the manpages). so, tried to use good ol' ftp(1) with 
>the help of .netrc:


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