Re: [cobalt-users] Automating ftp

[eric welling <eric@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday, May 9, 2001, at 08:01 PM, Gerald Waugh wrote:

> > At 5/9/01 08:39 PM +0100, you wrote:
> > > Since a few weeks we have a cobalt raq 4 server and i know it's 
> > > possible to
> > > automate some tasks, but is it possible to create a script that 
> > > downloads a
> > > few files from an ftp server to the raq and then upload these files to
> > > another server? and if it's possible how do i do this?

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Hello,

My favorite is actually expect. It is a very thorough package, being 
able to utilize secure transfers, etc. It comes with a lot of examples, 
and I would be glad to send you some of mine. Anyway expect can be 
seemlessly installed on a Raq via commands ...

wget http://expect.nist.gov/expect.tar.gz

and

wget http://expect.nist.gov/tcl.tar.gz

just use tar -xzf tcl.tar.gz
cd tcl8.3.2/unix
./configure
make
make install
cd ../../
tar -xzf expect.tar.gz
expect-5.32/
./configure
make
make install

And you are ready!

Eric