Simtel Shell
Tigger
cs3sd3ai at maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca
Fri Oct 6 04:24:04 AEST 1989
I'm having some porblems writing a script to auto download files from
the Simtel archives. What I would like to do is create a file
containing a list of the files i want, submit this as a batch file,
and relax. This is what I have come up with so far :
csh> ftp -n < shellfile
where shellfile contains :
open 26.2.0.74 (open the simtel ftp)
user anonymous (login as anonymous)
pass blah
cd pd1:<msdos.xxx>
get foo
get bar
quit
EOF
The problem is that when you send the user command to simtel, it responds
with Passord : without reading the next line in the file (giving the Pass
command). I therefore have to type at the terminal during the script.
This, therefore, means that I can't submit this as a batch operation.
What am I doing wrong? How can I tell simtel the password on the
user anonymous line?
BTW, were running a sun with BSD 4.3
Thanx for you help!
John Clarke
McMaster U.
Hamilton, ON
Canada
cs3sd3ai at maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca
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