Re: Another Shell Script question ftp
Re: Another Shell Script question ftp
- Subject: Re: Another Shell Script question ftp
- From: deivy petrescu <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 23:02:44 -0500
On Feb 10, 2006, at 14:24, Stockly, Ed wrote:
Hi again,
You know I think it's taking my longer to learn shell scripting
because I'm trying to do it through appleScript's do shell script
command.
One of the the problems I've found is that I can do workable
version in terminal that doesn't work via do shell script.
So, here's the solution I'm ready to use. Hope there's nothing in
there to bite me!
ES
set errLog to {}
tell application "Finder" to set fileName to the name of alias
fileToMove
set localFile to quoted form of POSIX path of alias fileToMove
set ftpShellScript to "ftp -d -v -u ftp://"; & remoteUserid & ":" &
remotePassword & "@" & remoteServer & ":21" & remotePath & fileName
& " " & localFile
try
tell application "Terminal"
do script ftpShellScript
delay 3
set shellScriptLog to contents of window 1
end tell
if shellScriptLog contains "226 Transfer complete." then
tell application "Finder"
delete alias fileToMove
empty trash
end tell
else
set the end of errLog to {"File Name: " & fileName, "Shell
script:", ftpShellScript, "ErrorMessage: ", errText, " Error code:
" & errNum, " User Id: " & remoteUserid, " User password: " &
remotePassword, " Remote server: " & remoteServer, " Remote path:
" & RemoteDirPath, " Remote directory: " & remoteDirectory, "
Error directory: " & errorDirectory, " Shell Script log: " &
shellScriptLog} as string
try
tell application "Finder"
move alias fileToMove to erro!
rDirectory
delete fileToMoveAlias
empty trash
end tell
end try
end if
end try
Ed Stockly
Los Angeles Times
Assistant Editor TV Times
Ed,
If you feel your way is solving your problem, by all means stick with
it.
However, there is a lot you are not using and you can do so much more
with ftp.
First, I do not know how many ftp sites you have to log in to, but no
matter how many, use ".netrc" .
This is a file that contains, at least, all the ftp sites you deal
with, their userids and passwords.
That is, using your favorite (ASCII) text editor you put the
following line for each of the ftp sites you are going to log in:
machine "your.domain.com" login "yourUserid" password
"yourPasswword" ( macdef init cd "public_html" )
where you should not use quotes and each word between quotes is kinda
self explanatory (macdef is for later).
Create a line for each machine.
Now, if you in your terminal window type ftp your.domain.com you
automatically get logged into the account *and* if you put the
macdef init "cd public_html" you are automatically moved to the
remote directory public_html.
So if you generally go to the same directory this saves a lot of typing.
Now, say you normally have your files to upload in your document
folders. Say they are in the ToUpload folder.
You can create an alias (Unix alias, not mac alias) in whatever shell
you work. I work in tcsh, the default MacOS is bash and the best,
according to a guy I consider a guru, is the zsh.
Well, in my tcsh shell this alias is :
alias fydc 'cd ~/Documents/ToUpload/; ftp your.domain.com'
And in my case (tcsh) it is placed on:
~/Library/init/tcsh/aliases.mine
After that, you type in your terminal
[powermacg4:~]% fydc
and, you change the local current directory to ~/Documents/
ToUpload/, log in your ftp site and change the directory to
public_html.
4 letters!
I generally keep a local folder with the same structure of the ftp site.
Once I am in, to script the exchange of files is very easy. And since
is now pure AppleScript, you can be really sophisticated.
So, here is an example of a simple script, it goes thru local folders
and puts the new version on the remote folders of the same name:
<script>
set theScript to "fydc --- this is saved in my alias file
cd todasasnotas/Grades136/ -- I could have used public_html/
todasasnotas/
-- in macdef init above, but I left it as an illustration
lcd todasasnotas/Grades136/ -- lcd changes the directory locally
prompt -- turns prompt off, great if you are transferring many files
mput *.html -- puts any file of the form name.html into the remote
machine
cd ../Grades299/ -- changes to a different remote directory (mirrored)
lcd ../Grades299/ -- changes to a different local directory
mput *.html
cd ../Grades352/
lcd ../Grades352/
mput *.html
bye" -- ends the ftp session.
tell application "Terminal"
activate
repeat with l from 1 to count of windows
if window l is not busy then
do script theScript in window l
exit repeat
end if
end repeat
end tell
<script>
Notice that, since theScript is just text, you can add a list of
files using Applescript, and work with older or newer files if you will.
I transfer a whole site sometimes, and the process is painless. Some
of the transfer above are for about hundred files and it is done in
a cinch.
The only issue I have with your script is, I'd trash things only
after I've seen that everything is correct. I'd wait a bit before
trashing. GB is cheap today!
Deivy
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