ftpput script: perl ?

[William Park]

On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 03:28:13PM -0400, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Apr 2004, Peter L. Peres wrote:
> 
> >
> > Hi, I wrote a small ftp upload script in tcl (without using expect). Now
> > I'm looking for a perl equivalent. The script should be small and if
> > possible implemented natively (no imported modules). Is there such a thing
> > ?
> 
>     I consider perl to be an imported module. ;)
> 
>     I do it in a simple shell script:
> 
> echo "binary
> put file
> mput xx.*" | ftp -i hostname
> 
>     The username and password are in $HOME/.netrc.

OP may want to experiment how much "sleep" is needed between FTP
commands.  

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