How to Call FTP from batch?

7 May 2009 5:03 PM

niladri chatterjee

How do I supply the User name / passord from a batch file

I did the following:-

cd c:\file_copy
ftp
connect 172.xx.y.zz
<actual username>
<actual pwd>
mGET *.PACKSLIP.DOC;*
copy /y C:\file_copy\*.* R:\PDFS\PACKING_SLIP
bye

Also, mGET from the DOS, prompts for 'Y' to enter for each file to copy. How
to supress confirmation like /y in Copy command?

8 May 2009 4:37 AM

Jack [MVP-Networking]

Hi
It is not clear what you have installed as ftp.
FTP is not a command, it is either a client application or a server
application, and the Logon depends on each specific application.
Jack (MS, MVP-Networking)

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"niladri chatterjee" <niladrichatter***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:4C533C93-16DD-43E3-95A1-D630C6BEC147@microsoft.com...
> How do I supply the User name / passord from a batch file
>
> I did the following:-
>
> cd c:\file_copy
> ftp
> connect 172.xx.y.zz
> <actual username>
> <actual pwd>
> mGET *.PACKSLIP.DOC;*
> copy /y C:\file_copy\*.* R:\PDFS\PACKING_SLIP
> bye
>
>
> Also, mGET from the DOS, prompts for 'Y' to enter for each file to copy.
> How
> to supress confirmation like /y in Copy command?
>
>
>

8 May 2009 1:13 PM

James Egan

On Thu, 7 May 2009 10:03:10 -0700, niladri chatterjee
<niladrichatter***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

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>How do I supply the User name / passord from a batch file
>
>I did the following:-
>
>cd c:\file_copy
>ftp
>connect 172.xx.y.zz
><actual username>
><actual pwd>
>mGET *.PACKSLIP.DOC;*
>copy /y C:\file_copy\*.* R:\PDFS\PACKING_SLIP
>bye
>
>
>Also, mGET from the DOS, prompts for 'Y' to enter for each file to copy. How
>to supress confirmation like /y in Copy command?
>
>

Perhaps you should be looking at a command line utility like wget
http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/

Jim.

23 May 2009 9:03 AM

Philip Herlihy

niladri chatterjee wrote:
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> How do I supply the User name / passord from a batch file
>
> I did the following:-
>
> cd c:\file_copy
> ftp
> connect 172.xx.y.zz
> <actual username>
> <actual pwd>
> mGET *.PACKSLIP.DOC;*
> copy /y C:\file_copy\*.* R:\PDFS\PACKING_SLIP
> bye
>
>
> Also, mGET from the DOS, prompts for 'Y' to enter for each file to copy. How
> to supress confirmation like /y in Copy command?
>
>
>

For scripting, you can't do better then use webdrive, mounts your ftp
server as a network drive, instantly enabling any file-aware program.

www.webdrive.com

Phil, London