Unix Scripts and Common Used Commands

FTP Shell script

Bourne Shell script that connects to a given FTP server and executes a few commands (e.g: download and delete a file) and disconnects.This script also assumes that you have the nessecary permissions.

#!/bin/sh
#These can be easily converted to be read from input
#or as command line params
FTP_SRVR=myftp #or ip
FTP_USR=my_login
FTP_PWD=my_passwd #not secure (but use a tied down login)

#change this to do some generate filename trick
#this is just something out of the blue
TODAYS_FILE=`date cut -c12-19`

ftp <open $FTP_SRVR
user $FTP_USR $FTP_PWD
binary
get $TODAYS_FILE
delete $TODAYS_FILE
bye
EOF