[Sussex] Automated FTP

[Thomas Adam]

On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 13:18:16 +0000
Matthew Macdonald-Wallace <matthew at truthisfreedom.org.uk> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> As part of a project I'm working on, I need to be able to automate the
> ftp process.
> 
> Basically, I need to send a file to an email address, this then
> uploads it to the server.  The problem is that the server is not mine,
> it is a webhosting account that will not allow me ssh or any other
> kind of shel access.
> 
> is it possible to do this using ftp and a shell script with cron?

FTP used to (and probably still does), read ~/.netrc which can ne used
for automation. Failing that, you can write some expect.....

-- Thomas Adam

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