Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 01:48:44 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Ivan van der Merwe <Ivan@atio.co.za> Cc: "'freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com'" <freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ftp transfers Message-ID: <39D4495C.94354DE3@softweyr.com> References: <21EF5EE45919D111865200805FA61F8A0111DA54@mother.atio.co.za>
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Ivan van der Merwe wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I need to do fequent ftp downloads. I would like to put
> this in the crontab if possible.
> In windows you can specify a file containing
> all the files that you want downloaded.
>
> Can I do the same on Unix
Of course you can:
ftp some.server.com << EOF
username
password
cd /some/directory
get file1
get file2
EOF
This is called a 'here is' document. But really it's much easier to just
use fetch. See the fetch(1) man page.
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