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user189942
user189942

Reputation: 361

FTP get output redirect to a text file

I am running this shell script to get a file from FTP server. 

#!/bin/sh
HOST='mininet-vm'
USER='mininet'
PASSWD='mininet'
FILE='index.html'

ftp -n $HOST <<END_SCRIPT
quote USER $USER
quote PASS $PASSWD
ls
pwd
get $FILE
quit
END_SCRIPT
exit 0

The output of ls and pwd is redirected to the file but the output of get is not redirected. I want this to be saved in the file, too.

Output of get command:

local: index.html remote: index.html
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for 'mininet/index.html' (104857600 bytes).
226 Transfer complete.
104857600 bytes received in 0.69 secs (148902.1 kB/s)

Please help me figure out the solution.

Thanks.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2437

Answers (1)

Martin Prikryl
Martin Prikryl

Reputation: 202340

Some ftp implementations inhibit some output, if the output or input is redirected.

You can force the output back using -v switch (verbose).

ftp -v -n $HOST > /tmp/ftp.worked

Upvotes: 2

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