Question

Apologies I know this is a well covered question, but I cant seem to find any simple solutions…

Trying to get a problem sorted out and im hoping that somone will be able to assist.

Im creating a script and the only way I can think of to resolve this particular problem is by FTP’ing a file to a remote web server.

.sh script, I tried FTP initially but there appears to be a problem with doing this to do with passwords, I tried a couple of workarounds but this didnt work.

I have then tried wput but that seems to fail as well.

#!/bin/sh
wput -v file.php ftp://usr:[e-mail]/docroot/

 bash wput.sh
wput.sh: line 2: $'\r': command not found
--12:20:58-- `/file.php'
    => ftp://user:[e-mail]/docroot/
Connecting to host.co.uk:21... connected!
Logging in as user ... Logged in!
==> CWD docroot
==> TYPE I ... done.
 ... failed.
==> SYST ... done (UNIX Type: L8).
==> PASV ... done.
==> TYPE A ... done.
==> LIST ... done.
==> TYPE I ... done.
==> PASV ... done.
' not understood) Skipping this file
FINISHED --12:20:59--
Transmission of 1 file failed.
wput.sh: line 4: $'\r': command not found
wput.sh: line 5: $'\r': command not found

Is anyone able to tell me where I’m going wrong. Could this be a file permissions issue or something?

All I need is the simplist solution for transfering a file from my computer to some web space automatically in the simpist way possible.

Thanks

Answer 1

Try to use ncftpput:

Examples showing in ncftpput help menu:

  ncftpput -u gleason -p my.password Elwood.probe.net /home/gleason stuff.txt
  ncftpput -u gleason Elwood.probe.net /home/gleason a.txt (prompt for pass)
  ncftpput -a -u gleason -p my.password -m -U 007 Bozo.probe.net /tmp/tmpdir a.txt
  tar cvf - /home | ncftpput -u operator -c Server.probe.net /backups/monday.tar