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

[Greg House <ghouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, you wrote:
> 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.  

Along the same lines, I bet you could use chat (like you would for dialin
stuff). There's also a way to redirect stdin to the script file when you're
running a script, so you can put the commands inline. Unfortunately, I can't
remember the way to invoke it right now. Maybe someone else does?

Greg

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