[NTLUG:Discuss] shell script help needed

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Hmmm...

Wouldn't it be easier to do:

rcp 209.x.x.x:/remote-path/ION* 10.x.x.x:/local-path

Assuming, of course, 10.x.x.x is routable from your perspective.  I always
use scp, but I think rcp uses the same naming conventions.

Carl

On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, David wrote:

> Hey guys,
> I have been tasked to create a script to get files from
> a remote ftp server 209.x.x.x and send them to an ftp server in
> Wichita,KS. which is on our 10.x.x.x network.
>
> The script I have now works as long as I run it
> manually.But when I run this script from the cron
> it never gets the first directory listing from the
> first server.
>
> ---begin script---
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> ##########################
> # varibles
> #
> ##########################
>
> d_remote="209.x.x.x"
> w_remote="10.x.x.x"
>
> # list files to retrieve
> files="ION2*"
>
> # local directories
> local="/home/delliott/ftp"
>
>
> # remote directories
> d_offsite="/remote/"
> w_offsite="/remote/"
>
> # remote username and password variables
> d_user="username"
> d_pass="passwd"
>
> w_user="username"
> w_pass="passwd"
> domain="ACG\\"
>
> # variables used in log file
> n=`diff 209.file 10.file | awk 'FS=" " {print $2}'`
> date=`date`
>
> #########################
> # take a snapshot of remote files
> # and put a listing of them in files
> #########################
>
> echo "dir" | ftp ftp://$d_user:$d_pass@$d_remote$d_offsite \
> | grep ION2 | awk 'FS=" " {print $9}' > $local/209.file
>
> echo "dir" | ftp ftp://$domain$w_user:$w_pass@$w_remote$w_offsite \
> | grep ION2 | awk 'FS=" " {print $9}' > $local/10.file
>
> #########################
> # do comparision to see what files need to be grabbed
> # from the remote site
> #########################
>
> cd $local
> # compare the local list to the remote list,strip off the leading
> #'<' and then
> # put into a file called needed
>
> diff 209.file 10.file | awk 'FS=" " {print $2}' > needed
>
> #########################
> # start transferring missing files to the remote
> # ftp server in 10.file.
> #########################
>
> for i in `cat needed`;
> do echo "get $i" | ftp ftp://$d_user:$d_pass@$d_remote$d_offsite;
> done
>
> for i in `cat needed`;
> do echo "put $i" | ftp ftp://$domain$w_user:$w_pass@$w_remote$w_offsite;
> done
> echo "Transferred" $n, on $date >> /var/log/transfer.log
>
> # script to remove the 10.file,209.file and needed files.
> ./clean.sh
>
>
>
>
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