Question

I have a text file on one computer that I want to send to a folder on a ftp site.
Can someone please show me a batch file code that will login to the FTP site with the username and password, and copy the text file.

Thanks for your help.

Answer 1

If you mean batch as in Windows batch, you can do that with the following script tst.cmd:

@ftp -n -stst.ftp myTargetMachine.com

(replacing myTargetMachine.com with the name of your actual FTP server) and the following FTP command file tst.ftp:

user myUser myPassword
dir
bye

Obviously, you should replace the myUser and myPassword with your actual username and password, and also dir command with whatever you really want to do, such as:

put localfile.txt /fullpath/remotefile.txt

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If you’re talking about a UNIX-like environment, the script would be:

#!/bin/bash
ftp -n myTargetMachine.com <<EOF
    user myUser myPassword
    dir
    bye
EOF

Same deal with the FTP server name, user ID and password, of course.

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And, in response to your comment:

Yes, I am talking about from a Windows environment. So for arguments sake, let’s say the text file is C:\textfile.txt and I need to copy it to the FTP site in the folder called BACKUPS.

You would use a script like the following transfer.cmd:

@setlocal enableextensions enabledelayedexpansion
@echo off
c:
cd \
ftp -n -stransfer.ftp myTargetMachine.com
endlocal

and transfer.ftp:

user myUser myPassword
put textfile.txt /backups/textfile.txt
bye

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If you wanted the Windows version as a single file, you could use something like:

@echo off
echo user myUser myPassword>tst.ftp
echo dir>>tst.ftp
echo bye>>tst.ftp
ftp -n -s:tst.ftp myTargetMachine.com
del /q tst.ftp

which temporarily creates tst.ftp and then deletes it when it’s finished.