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

Asked by atkinsonit in 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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