Re: simple shell scripting question

[Matt Price <matt.price@utoronto.ca>]

Michael,
thanks for the ref to ncftpput.  I'l\l look into that and lftp, as
someone else suggested.  But re: the here script:  does this work if I
write it ina simple shell script?  That is do I write a script thus:
cd ~!/website
ftp -i origin.chass.utoronto.ca<<EOF
mget * */* */*/*
EOF

I seem to be getting an error (command not found) when I do this -- is
there a little trick?
thx,
mat

On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 04:58:47PM -0500, Michael Heironimus wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 05:44:53PM -0400, Matt Price wrote:
> > command line, far as I can tell.  so: is there a way to pass these
> > instructions on to ftp from a shell script?  I imagine this must be a
> 
> The first thing I'd suggest is using one of the script-oriented FTP
> tools that was designed to work this way, like "ncftpput". But to answer
> your general question, there's a shell construct called a "here script".
> It works like this:
> 
> command_needing_input <<EOF
> input 1
> input 2
> ..
> EOF
> 
> You can actually do this at the command line if you want to try it out.
> 
> -- 
> Michael Heironimus
> 
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