How to ftp with a batch file

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I want a batch file to ftp to a server  read out a text file  and disconnect  The server requires a user and password  I tried   echo off pause  ftp example com username password pause   but it never logged on  How can I get this to work

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Here s what I use  In my case  certain ftp servers  pure-ftpd for one  will always prompt for the username even with the -i parameter  and catch the  user username  command as the interactive password  What I do it enter a few NOOP  no operation  commands until the ftp server times out  and then login   open ftp example com  noop noop noop noop noop noop noop noop user username password     quit

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This is an old post however  one alternative is to use the command options   ftp -n -s ftpcmd txt   the -n will suppress the initial login and then the file contents would be   replace the 127 0 0 1 with your FTP site url   open 127 0 0 1 user myFTPuser myftppassword other commands here      This avoids the user password on separate lines

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You can use PowerShell as well  this is what I did  As I needed to download a file based on a pattern I dynamically created a command file and then let ftp do the rest   I used basic PowerShell commands  I did not need to download any additional components  I first checked if the requisite number of files existed  If they I invoked the FTP the second time with an Mget  I run this from a Windows Server 2008 connecting to a Windows nbsp XP remote server   function make ftp command file  p file pattern  mget flag          This function dynamically prepares the FTP file        The file needs to be prepared daily because the       pattern changes daily        PowerShell default encoding is Unicode        Unicode command files are not compatible with FTP so       we need to make sure we create an ASCII file       write-output  USER    out-file -filepath C  fc txt -encoding ASCII     write-output  ftpusername    out-file -filepath C  fc txt -encoding ASCII -Append     write-output  password    out-file -filepath C  fc txt -encoding ASCII -Append     write-output  ASCII    out-file -filepath C  fc txt -encoding ASCII -Append     If   mget flag -eq  Y                 write-output  prompt    out-file -filepath C  fc txt -encoding ASCII -Append         write-output  mget  p file pattern    out-file -filepath C  fc txt -encoding ASCII -Append           else               write-output  ls  p file pattern    out-file -filepath C  fc txt -encoding ASCII -Append            write-output quit   out-file -filepath C  fc txt -encoding ASCII -Append                                  Init Section                                  yesterday    get-date  AddDays -1   yesterday fmt   date  yesterday -format  yyyyMMdd   file pattern    BRAE GE       yesterday fmt      csv   file log    yesterday fmt     log   echo   file pattern echo   file log                                  Main Section                                Change location to folder where the files need to be downloaded cd c  remotefiles    Dynamically create the FTP Command to get a list of files from   the remote servers echo  Call function that creates a FTP Command   make ftp command file  file pattern N    echo  Connect to remote site via FTP    Connect to Remote Server and get file listing ftp -n -v -s C  Clover scripts fc txt 10 129 120 31  gt  C  logs  file log   matches select-string -pattern  BRAE GE  A-Z  A-Z    C  logs  file log    Check if the required number of Files available for download if   matches count -eq 36          Create the FTP command file        This time the command file has an mget rather than an ls     make ftp command file  file pattern Y        Change directory if not done so     cd c  remotefiles        Invoke ftp with newly created command file     ftp -n -v -s C  Clover scripts fc txt 10 129 120 31  gt  C  logs  file log   else       echo  The full set of files is not available

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The answer by 0x90h helped a lot     I saved this file as u ftp   open 10 155 8 215  user password lcd  D  G  Subfolder   cd  folder  binary mget file csv disconnect quit   I then ran this command   ftp -i -s u ftp   And it worked     Thanks a lot man

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If you need to pass variables to the txt file you can create in on the fly and remove after   This is example is a batch script running as administrator  It creates a zip file using some date  amp  time variables  Then it creates a ftp text file on the fly with some variables  Then it deletes the zip  folder and ftp text file   set YYYY  DATE  10 4  set MM  DATE  4 2  set DD  DATE  7 2   set HH  TIME   0  set HH  HH  0 2  set MI  TIME  3 2  set SS  TIME  6 2  set FF  TIME  9 2   set dirName  YYYY  MM  DD  set fileName  YYYY  MM  DD   HH  MI  SS  zip  echo  fileName    C  Program Files 7-Zip 7z exe  a -tzip C   dirName   fileName  -r  C  tozip      -mx5        echo open 198 123 456 789     echo user somedomain com     echo yourpassword     echo lcd  C   dirName       echo cd  theremotedir     echo binary     echo mput   zip     echo disconnect     echo bye    gt  C  ftp details txt   cd C   FTP -v -i -s  ftp details txt   del C  ftp details txt  f

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You need to write the ftp commands in a text file and give it as a parameter for the ftp command like this   ftp -s filename   More info here  http   www nsftools com tips MSFTP htm  I am not sure though if it would work with username and password prompt

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Use  ftp -s FileName    as decribed in Windows XP Professional Product Documentation   The file name that you have to specify in place of FileName must contain FTP commands that you want to send to the server  Among theses commands are   open Computer  Port  to connect to an FTP server  user UserName  Password   Account  to authenticate with the FTP server  get RemoteFile  LocalFile  to retrieve a file  quit to end the FTP session and terminate the ftp program    More commands can be found under Ftp subcommands

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Each line of a batch file will get executed  but only after the previous line has completed   In your case  as soon as it hits the ftp line the ftp program will start and take over user input   When it is closed then the remaining lines will execute   Meaning the username password are never sent to the FTP program and instead will be fed to the command prompt itself once the ftp program is closed   Instead you need to pass everything you need on the ftp command line   Something like    echo off echo user MyUserName gt  ftpcmd dat echo MyPassword gt  gt  ftpcmd dat echo bin gt  gt  ftpcmd dat echo put  1 gt  gt  ftpcmd dat echo quit gt  gt  ftpcmd dat ftp -n -s ftpcmd dat SERVERNAME COM del ftpcmd dat

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I have written a script as   sh file     bin sh set -x FTPHOST  host-address  FTPUSER  ftp-username  FTPPASSWD  yourPass   ftp -n -v  FTPHOST  lt  lt  EOT ascii user  FTPUSER  FTPPASSWD prompt   Your commands bye EOT   Works fine for me

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Using the Windows FTP client you would want to use the -s filename option to specify a script for the FTP client to run   The documentation specifically points out that you should not try to pipe input into the FTP client with a  lt  character   Execution of the script will start immediately  so it does work for username password     However  the security of this setup is questionable since you now have a username and password for the FTP server visible to anyone who decides to look at your batch file   Either way  you can generate the script file on the fly from the batch file and then pass it to the FTP client like so    echo off  REM Generate the script  Will overwrite any existing temp txt echo open servername gt  temp txt echo username gt  gt  temp txt echo password gt  gt  temp txt echo get  1 gt  gt  temp txt echo quit gt  gt  temp txt  REM Launch FTP and pass it the script ftp -s temp txt  REM Clean up  del temp txt   Replace servername  username  and password with your details and the batch file will generate the script as temp txt launch ftp with the script and then delete the script   If you are always getting the same file you can replace the  1 with the file name   If not you just launch the batchfile and provide the name of the file to get as an argument

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