Re: Need help.

From: Barry Margolin (barry.margolin_at_level3.com)
Date: 07/15/03 

Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 22:29:02 GMT

In article <cef5d0a6.0307141215.13019673@posting.google.com>,
parth <parth002000@yahoo.com> wrote:
>I am writting a korn shell script to ftp files to another box. But the
>catch is that I have to put file every 30 seconds, without
>disconnecting ftp.
>
>I am using put (put $filename)but unable supply new filename as ftp
>don't have any command for looping..

One way to do this is with a coprocess. Start a coprocess running ftp, and
then have the main process go into a loop sending "put $filename" to the
pipe to the coprocess.

Other solutions would be to write the script in Perl using the Net::FTP
module, or in Expect. 

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