FTP using Batch or vbs file

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I am trying to automate some work that is being done by a co-worker of mine. He spends a lot of time manually FTPing data to and from. I’m sure that this can more easily be done through a batch file or .vbs script. Does anyone have any example code for accomplishing this? If possible, I’d like to see examples of both.

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Windows XP has a command line FTP program that can act on a text file listing commands. I have used this to upload dozens of files to a remote server. Occasionally it bombs out, so I don’t recommend it for unattended operation. I posted on this in the past but have to run this minute. If you don’t find it, please let me know.

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Windows XP has a command line FTP program that can act on a text file listing commands. I have used this to upload dozens of files to a remote server. Occasionally it bombs out, so I don’t recommend it for unattended operation. I posted on this in the past but have to run this minute. If you don’t find it, please let me know.

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I tried to search for past posts prior to posting my own, and didn’t find anything.

I am aware that WinXP has its own command-line FTP engine. I’ve used it many times. However, when I’ve tried to write a batch file to automate it, I get the FTP session up, but the user and pwd commands are not processed. Apparently, I’m doing something wrong, because I know that it can be done within a text file.

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When I did it using WS_FTP I had to put the login & password in the site profile-then I could invoke FTP from the command line with the site profile & from/to file destinations as arguments.

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When I did it using WS_FTP I had to put the login & password in the site profile-then I could invoke FTP from the command line with the site profile & from/to file destinations as arguments.

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Could you provide some more information on this. We use WS_FTP already.

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The command line we use is:
“c:program filesws_ftpftp95pro.exe” local:X:MLXCATALOGREPORTDAILY.ZIP Anacomp:DAILY.ZIP

Can’t remember right now how we set up the Anacomp profile-it’s not on my machine. I’ll look in a bit when I’m at the machine that has it.

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The command line we use is:
“c:program filesws_ftpftp95pro.exe” local:X:MLXCATALOGREPORTDAILY.ZIP Anacomp:DAILY.ZIP

Can’t remember right now how we set up the Anacomp profile-it’s not on my machine. I’ll look in a bit when I’m at the machine that has it.

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Could you provide some more information on this. We use WS_FTP already.

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The post that jscher2000 was referring to is probably post 380784

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I believe that I found a fairly good primer for FTP batch files here. This think this was written for AS/400 programmers, but it is a good article for anyone. Thanks to those who responded.

Now, does anyone have a good vbs script?

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A good VBS script to do what? Do you want to take advantage of the command-line FTP program or some other package? If you purchase an ActiveX (COM) control such as the one in IP*Works from nsoftware (or maybe a free one out there somewhere) you can script it directly without having to try to hack at other programs.

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A good VBS script to do what? Do you want to take advantage of the command-line FTP program or some other package? If you purchase an ActiveX (COM) control such as the one in IP*Works from nsoftware (or maybe a free one out there somewhere) you can script it directly without having to try to hack at other programs.

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I believe that I found a fairly good primer for FTP batch files here. This think this was written for AS/400 programmers, but it is a good article for anyone. Thanks to those who responded.

Now, does anyone have a good vbs script?

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Exactly. The .txt file contains what the user would otherwise have to type to operate the command line FTP program.

The batch file contains the command line that runs the FTP program and feeds it the .txt file.

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Exactly. The .txt file contains what the user would otherwise have to type to operate the command line FTP program.

The batch file contains the command line that runs the FTP program and feeds it the .txt file.

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The post that jscher2000 was referring to is probably post 380784

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I tried to search for past posts prior to posting my own, and didn’t find anything.

I am aware that WinXP has its own command-line FTP engine. I’ve used it many times. However, when I’ve tried to write a batch file to automate it, I get the FTP session up, but the user and pwd commands are not processed. Apparently, I’m doing something wrong, because I know that it can be done within a text file.

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Randall

The main problem with automating FTP is that is produced nothing in the way of errorlevels to assist you.

I wrote something to download antivirus updates from the Network Associates’ website, and you may be able to glean some information from the file (which I’ve attached as a TXT file).

Since I seem to write BATch files for a living (but only up to 19 october, mind!), I’ll help further if I can!

John

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Randall

The main problem with automating FTP is that is produced nothing in the way of errorlevels to assist you.

I wrote something to download antivirus updates from the Network Associates’ website, and you may be able to glean some information from the file (which I’ve attached as a TXT file).

Since I seem to write BATch files for a living (but only up to 19 october, mind!), I’ll help further if I can!

John

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