ftp thru bat file

[Anon]

Hi,
Need help in FTPing a file to a server from my C drive,using a batch job,
I have written a script(test.bat) for that,but I don't know how I should give the USER/PASSOWRD in that script.
When I call the script from CMD prompt using the following:
ftp -s:test.bat

it opens the FTP server,but prompts for the user/password

I don't want that,bcoz this will be a scheduled job,so it should take the USER/PASSWORD from the script itself.

Please let me know how I should do that
THanks a lot
Aparajita

[guzman-el-bueno]

i'll gladly answer this question if you can remind me how to use 'at' or whatever other scheduler you are using on your windows machine...

i'm generally using cron, so i think the win32 equiv is 'at', right?

your ftp .bat should look something like this:
#

ftp -s:servername IP.address
user .username passwd

binary [or whatever mode you want]

get path/to/file.xxx
get path/to/file.xxx
send path/to/file.xxx

whatever other/cmds/you/want.xxx

quit / bye

#
good luck. no don't forget to post how to use 'at'!

[guzman-el-bueno]$

[Anon]

I would do it like this.

Have a batch file point to a text file that contains the actual instructions.

test.bat contains the following ...

ftp -s:test.txt my.server.com

test.txt contains the following ...

my_username
my_password
prompt
cd c:\test
binary
mput c:\test*.gif

ascii
put c:\test\textfile.txt
bye

use mput to load multiple files and put for singel files. Notice the use of the wildcard.