FTP Script | AIX to Windows Share

Often times you may want to create a script to copy, move or grab files from your AIX machine to a Windows (or other) box.  In some cases, there may a shared Windows drive created office wide and you would like to dump system information or reporting here.  If ssh is not supported on the other end, you will need to use FTP.

General FTP Commands

Here is a quick script to move files from your AIX box to your Windows share.

ftpmove(){

ftp -n <<-EOF

open fully_qualified_server_name

user username password

cd path/to/file

put file_to_copy_to_windows

get file_to_copy_to_aix

EOF

}

ftpmove