CODEWITHSUNDEEP
windowsbatch-fileftp
Mick
Mick

Reputation: 7937

ftp behaving differently between windows 7 and 10

I have a batch file which contains the following line...

ftp < ftpcom.txt

The ftpcom.txt file contain something along the lines of...

open ftp.mysite.com
myusername
mypassword
cd public_html
cd subdirectory
mput afile.txt
y
quit

This has been working perfectly on my windows 10 PC for some time but I have been temporarily forced to switch to an old windows 7 PC and now it gets stuck at the password. I.e. I see that it has connected to ftp.mysite.com and has read my username and is now asking for the password (I see the text "Password:") but I see nothing after that. The DOS box is just stuck - as if it was waiting for someone to type in a password. Maybe there is some windows 7 feature whereby ftp refuses to accept a password form a file?

Obviously this might not be a windows 7 vs. 10 issue at all - maybe it just some incorrect configuration setting.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 68

Answers (1)

user7818749
user7818749

Reputation:

From cmd.exe if you run ftp /? you get some help. Let's focus on one particular part of this help output.

-s:filename     Specifies a text file containing FTP commands;
                the commands will automatically run after FTP starts.

Upvotes: 1

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