From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 22 12:12:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA23895 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 12:12:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from alaska.net (root@calvino.alaska.net [206.149.65.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA23889 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 12:12:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from calvino (calvino.alaska.net) by alaska.net (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA26060; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 11:11:22 -0800 Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 11:11:20 -0800 (AKDT) From: hmmm X-Sender: hmmm@calvino To: freebsd-questions Subject: ftp netrc Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk i have a NETRC machine entry for my isp. it just logs me and and lists my dir, and i want to leave that AS IS. however, i'd like to write a SH script that will automatically back up my work and then FTP the archive to my isp, then exit, and shutdown. it doesn't seem possible to : ftp send xyz.file on the command line and the NETRC file seems to allow only one entry per machine. so - i can't see how i can do this but i know with UNIX all things are possible, right? ! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ don't part with your illusions. when they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. -- mark twain http://www.alaska.net/~hmmm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------