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Subject: Automating multiple file transfers with FTP
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Any hints on how I can automate multiple file transfers with FTP
using a valid user/password?

The FTP man page talks about "AUTO-FETCHING FILES", but I couldn't get
that to work for multiple files. I tried the "ftp ftp://user:password@host/file" format and
that worked only for single files. I tried putting different files at the
end, but only the file right after the host worked :
"host/<this one worked>"

I did get the following to work:
ftp ftp://user:password@host/directory <ftp.script

Having ftp.script with something like:
ascii
prompt
mget *.txt

Is this the only/best way to do this?

Ultimately I am going to try and do this through ssh, but scp didn't seem
to work to copy multiple files (tried sctp user@host:/files .).



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