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Bash script: FTP login, download files, delete remote files

Zone: Bourne-Again Shell (bash)

Tags: bash

I'm trying to create a BASH script to perform the following tasks and I'm stuck on step 4

1) login to remote FTP server
2) download all *.txt files to $HOME/$DATE directory for that day (ie. 20080306)
3) create a list $DATE.list of all the files that were downloaded succesfully to $DATEDIR
4) delete all files in the $DATE.list from the remote server
5) logout. repeat daily!

Here's my script so far without step 4 (because all my tests have failed). How would I send FTP commands to delete each file listed in the $DATE.list file?

Thanks!

         
           
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             #!/bin/bash
 
### getFTP v.1 #################
#
# Variables : use backquotes!#
DATE=`date +%Y%m%d`
HOME='/home/itdev/scripts/mepco'
#
HOST='remotehost'
USER='myUser'
PASSWD='myPasswd'
FILE='*.txt'
#
####################################
 
# Make directory of current date, make that directory local
mkdir $HOME/$DATE
cd $HOME/$DATE
 
# Login, run get files
ftp -inv $HOST <<END_SCRIPT
quote USER $USER
quote PASS $PASSWD
mget $FILE
!ls > $DATE.list
bye
 
# Cleanup
exit 0

           
         

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Zone: Programming

Question Asked By: atkinsonit

Solution Provided By: omarfarid

Participating Experts: 2

Solution Grade: A

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Comment by atkinsonit

Here's what we came up with, we used LFTP to download and delete the files just downloaded. Seems to work fine since the remote host would not give me anything but FTP.

         
           
           
             cd ${HOME}/${DLOAD}
lftp -f ../lftp_script.ftp
cp -Rf *.txt $COPYTODIR
mv *.txt copied
 
# lftp_script.ftp #
open -u username,'password' ftp.domain.com
cd confirmation
mget *.txt
mrm *.txt
quit
           
         

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