Copy a list of files from a file

You can turn your list of files into list of ftp commands easily enough:

(echo open hostname.host;  echo user username;  cat filelist | awk '{ print "put " $1; }'; echo bye) > script.ftp

Then you can just run:

ftp -s script.ftp

Or possibly (with other versions of ftp)

ftp -n < script.ftp

Something along these lines - the somecommand depends on what you want to do - I don't get that from your question, sorry.

#!/bin/bash# Iterate through lines in filefor line in `cat file.txt`;do#your ftp command here do something     somecommand $linedone

edit: If you really want to persue this route for multiple files (you shouldn't!), you can use the following command in place of somecommand $line:

ncftpput -m -u username -p password ftp.server.com /remote/folder $line

ncftpput propably also takes an arbitrary number of files to upload in one go, but I havn't checked it. Notice that this approach will connect and disconnect for every single file!

Thanks for the very helpful example of how to feed a list of files to ftp. This worked beautifully for me.

After creating my ftp script in Linux (CentOs 5.5), I ran the script with:

ftp –n < ../script.ftp

My script (with names changed to protect the innocent) starts with:

open <ftpsite>user <userid> <passwd>cd <remote directory>binpromptget <file1>get <file2>

And ends with:

get <filen-1>get <filen>bye