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Re: ftp in while loops
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Lars Appel <[log in to unmask]>
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Lars Appel <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 20 Apr 2000 22:17:31 +0200
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>Has anyone ever used ftp inside a while loop in a batch job?  We have
>tried this with different jobs but only the first iteration of the while
>loop works.

It's probably not a good idea to have FTP read its commands from the
job $STDIN inside the while loop. It should work OK, if FTP reads its
commands from a (temp) file via input redirection (ftp < somefile).

Lars.

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