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Ryders

Nov 15th, 2006 8:49 PM

bash ftp in function....

this works fine;

        ftp -n $FTP_HOST <<FTP_TERMINATE

        quote USER $FTP_USER

        quote PASS $FTP_PASS

        bye

        FTP_TERMINATE

        exit 0;

whereas this doesn't

checkFtp() {



        ftp -n $FTP_HOST <<FTP_TERMINATE

        quote USER $FTP_USER

        quote PASS $FTP_PASS

        bye

        FTP_TERMINATE

        exit 0;



}



checkFtp;

It's about the << in the ftp connection... but hell I need them! how do I escape them?

anybody has a clue?!

Cheers,

Seb.

Ryders

Nov 15th, 2006 10:09 PM

fixed;

it turns out the FTP_TERMINATE in the function requires to be at the begining of the line (no \t before)

Hope this helps anybody else!

Cheers!

Seb.

jim mcnamara

Nov 16th, 2006 4:28 PM

look up "here document" on google.

Ryders

Nov 16th, 2006 4:50 PM

Oh man!

The more I learn about linux bash programming/scripting... the more I love it!

Cheers for your input mate!

Seb.

DaWei

Nov 16th, 2006 6:51 PM

No substantive post, but I want to commend you for reporting your self-discovered fix for the benefit of the rest of us.

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