[linux-help] Re: Automating an ftp job to and IBM mainfram

[Thomas Wallis <wallis@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Keltner, Gene wrote:

> I need to automatically send a file to our IBM mainframe from a Linux (Red
> Hat 6.2) server.  I am presently doing it manually but I must get it to work
> automatically in the middle of the night.  
> 
> Does anyone have suggestions on a script, etc that would do an ftp login to
> the mainframe, execute a SEND command to get the file up there, and then
> quit or terminate the connection.?

        Dear Gene:

        You might check out Expect, which can do things like this.  It is
often used to automate interactive tasks.  

                                Tom Wallis
> 
> 
> Gene Keltner
> Kansas Farm Bureau Services
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> 
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