Hi,

I just need a shell script that copies a list of files from a directory in a remote server to my current directory at local server

the remote server may contain the following list:
/root/pradeep/myfiles/default
/root/pradeep/myfiles/dir1
/root/pradeep/myfiles/dir2
...
/root/pradeep/myfiles/dir10

the following are the conditions:
1) the mandatory parameters to the script are <server name> < userid> < password>

if this is given it should copy all the file in a directory /root/pradeep/myfiles/default
to my local system

2) if the fourth option is mentioned, that should be any directory name in /root/pradeep/myfiles/
the script should copies all the files in that directory
to my current directory

thanking you in advance

That could be easily accomplished by scp: it accepts server-side wildcards.

Hai,
Im a new user in this environment...could u kindly provide with the entire script

Could you kindly try and do your homework on your own.
I you do get stuck, we may be able to guide you.

I would have used uucp

Yaah!!!! i tried the following script... but problem is 'if-condition' are not supported in the FTP script what i had used.... could someone help me

#!/bin/bash
##
##Script to load FILES


if [ $# -lt 3 -a $# -gt 4 ] ; then
echo "please enter the command properly"
echo " "
echo "Usage: <Script_name><server><user_name><password>[<directory name>]"
echo "example: sh pradeep.sh server1 root root123 [dir1]"
echo "try again"

elif [ $# -eq 3 ] ; then
hostname=$1
username=$2
password=$3

ftp -n -i $hostname <<END_SCRIPT
quote USER $username
quote PASS $password
bin
cd /root/pradeep/myfiles/default
mget *.rpm
END_SCRIPT
elif [ $# -eq 4 ] ; then
hostname=$1
username=$2
password=$3


ftp -n -i $hostname <<END_SCRIPT
quote USER $username
quote PASS $password
bin

cd /root/pradeep/myfiles
ls -l | grep "$4" > /temp/available.$$

temps =`cat /temp/available.$$`

if [ " $temps " == "" ] ; then
cd /root/pradeep/myfiles/$4
mget *.rpm
else
echo "Sorry the required file doesnt exit's"
fi
END_SCRIPT

fi

Try this:

Thanks u every much for the reply,

but, in the script, the statement
ftp -n -i $hostname <<END_SCRIPT >$logname

the variable logname
which is intended to track whether the files is there are not( i suppose) , is not working...no error ... and no output is shown...

could u kindly once again see the script and modify it please

The output is in a file named "ftp_2010-08-11.log", however there should be quotation marks around the "picture string"|"output format" in the date command.

I couldnt get u sir

What he means is to add quotes like this: