Re: Scripting Terminal for simple FTP
Re: Scripting Terminal for simple FTP
- Subject: Re: Scripting Terminal for simple FTP
- From: Andrew Oliver <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 08:28:09 -0800
I'm sorry but the examples below are *still* not examples of *interacting*
with the ftp terminal session in progress, they are just variations on a
theme of how to string multiple inputs together.
Proper interaction requires the ability to make decisions based on the
results of an earlier action.
For what it's worth, if you're just trying to minimize the number of lines
to download a file using ftp, you can't beat:
do shell script "ftp
ftp://user:email@hidden/path/to/file";
Prepend the shell script with 'cd /path;' to download the file to a specific
directory instead of the current directory.
IMHO, the closest I've seen to an scripted interactive ftp session is
multiple curl commands strung together, essentially initiating separate ftp
connections for each step.
Then, of course, there's always .netrc
Andrew
:)
On 4/3/03 6:52 AM, "Nigel Smith" <email@hidden> wrote:
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On 3/4/03 15:21, "Chris Janton" <email@hidden> wrote:
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> On Tuesday, April 1, 2003, at 11:00 PM,
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> email@hidden wrote:
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>> In this specific case, the question related to controlling the ftp
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>> connection, and that can't be done, even with semi colon-separated
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>> commands
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>> passed in the 'do shell script'.
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> tell application "Terminal"
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> set myIndex to (get the index of every window whose name is "my test
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> window")
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> do script "ftp foo.com" in window myIndex
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> do script "user bar" in window myIndex
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> do script "xyzzy" in window myIndex -- this is the password
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> do script "ls P*" in window myIndex
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> do script "exit" in window myIndex
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> end tell
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Way too many do scripts for my poor brain to handle :-)
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How's about (for example):
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set theScript to "ftp -n [machine-name]
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user [username] [password]
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cd /var/www/htdocs/nigel_test
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ls
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lcd ~/Desktop
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bin
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get vars_ssi_test.shtml"
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tell application "Terminal"
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do script theScript
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end tell
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Works over here on OSX 10.2.4, though you'll want to change the ftp commands
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to do your own thing...
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Nigel
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