Re: Scripting Terminal for simple FTP
Re: Scripting Terminal for simple FTP
- Subject: Re: Scripting Terminal for simple FTP
- From: Paul Skinner <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 13:19:36 -0500
You can certainly achieve this type of interaction through the 'do
shell script' command. It really makes no difference if you're in the
shell looking at the results or in a choose from list dialog. You can
code whatever interactive options you want.
Paul Skinner
On Thursday, April 3, 2003, at 11:28 AM, Andrew Oliver wrote:
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:
On 3/4/03 15:21, "Chris Janton" <email@hidden> wrote:
On Tuesday, April 1, 2003, at 11:00 PM,
email@hidden wrote:
In this specific case, the question related to controlling the ftp
connection, and that can't be done, even with semi colon-separated
commands
passed in the 'do shell script'.
tell application "Terminal"
set myIndex to (get the index of every window whose name is "my test
window")
do script "ftp foo.com" in window myIndex
do script "user bar" in window myIndex
do script "xyzzy" in window myIndex -- this is the password
do script "ls P*" in window myIndex
do script "exit" in window myIndex
end tell
Way too many do scripts for my poor brain to handle :-)
How's about (for example):
set theScript to "ftp -n [machine-name]
user [username] [password]
cd /var/www/htdocs/nigel_test
ls
lcd ~/Desktop
bin
get vars_ssi_test.shtml"
tell application "Terminal"
do script theScript
end tell
Works over here on OSX 10.2.4, though you'll want to change the ftp
commands
to do your own thing...
Nigel
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