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Acessing and transferring files from a FTP server to my ftp server through cron file

I have a FTP Server that uses Cron to automate tasks and I would like to use it to access another ftp server, get a file that starts with 26 and have an extension .csv, transfer to my FTP I am running the cron and delete the file on the origin FTP server, every friday of the week. Can somebody help me with the script code?

What I have right now is this:

#!/bin/bash -x

filename="dir/*.csv"
hostname="files.test"
username="testuser"
password="testpassword"

ftp -in $hostname <<EOF
quote USER $username
quote PASS $password

binary
get $filename
quit
EOF

Please, help

Solution 
  • #!/bin/bash
USER=user
PASS=password
URL=myIP
PLACE=tmp
#
ftp -v -n > /tmp/xftpb.log <<EOF
        open $URL
        user $USER $PASS
        binary
        cd $PLACE
        mget 26*.csv
        mdel 26*.csv
        quit
EOF

    To run every friday, 8:00h, use at crontab:

    0 8 * * 5     /path/mybash.sh