FTP script problem
I'm new unix enviroment, and I have mamnaged to wrote a script to ftp a file from a remote machine.
My problem when the ftp has executed all other lines in the script are ignored and script exits. The message "file transfer has completed" is not displayed and date . Below is my sample script.

Please tell me what I am doing wrong here.

#!/bin/ksh
userString="brsgadmin"
pswdString="brsg6906"
#ifmsdir="NSPPRO_USR1:[USERS.IFMS.BRSGADMIN]"
ifmsfile="COPY_DB_STATUS.DAT"
ftp -in ba0470.optus.com.au <<-END_FTP
user $userString $pswdString
get ${ifmsfile}
quit
-END_FTP

echo "file transfer has completed"
date

well you could try to put the last two lines:the one with the message and the one with the date before quit

I would suggest breaking the FTP portion into another ksh file you call from this one. That way you can truly tell whether the transfer completed successfully. Your script as it is assume the transfer will work all the time successfully. Example:

echo "**** Transfering file ****"
ksh push.ftp > /tmp/push_ftp.$$
if (grep -c "Transfer complete" /tmp/dnb_ftp.$$ > /dev/null);
then
echo "**** Transfer Complete ***"
else
echo "**** Transfer ERROR ****"
fi

If you create a file named .netrc in your $HOME directory with the permissions 400 you dont need USER and PASS for ftp.
This is only a tip for using ftp.

For anyone else who reads this thread, the proper script should be:

#!/bin/ksh
userString="brsgadmin"
pswdString="brsg6906"
#ifmsdir="NSPPRO_USR1:[USERS.IFMS.BRSGADMIN]"
ifmsfile="COPY_DB_STATUS.DAT"
ftp -in ba0470.optus.com.au <<-END_FTP
user $userString $pswdString
get ${ifmsfile}
quit
END_FTP

echo "file transfer has completed"
date

where "-END_FTP" at the end is changed to "END_FTP" (without the "-" character)

The - betwen << and label END_FTP indicates that datas until END_FTP can be prefixed by a TAB that will be ignored.
The code can be rewritten like this :