Is their Automatic command to send a JPG file using FTP

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Jan 28), Dixit, Viraj said:
> The script that I have setup does not work if I run the .netrc file. I
> ran the commands in ftp -v mode and it did not like machine command, did
> not like passwd or pwd etc. 

The commands in .netrc are not the same ones that you send on the ftp
commandline (except for the macdef block), so that's to be expected.  I just
tried your sample netrc file (with changes to match my system) and it worked
just fine:

 (dan at dan.19) /tmp> cat ~/.netrc
 machine 127.0.0.1
 login dan 
 password xxxxxx
 macdef init
 binary
 lcd /tmp
 cd /
 get COPYRIGHT
 quit

 (dan at dan.19) /tmp> ftp 127.0.0.1
 Connected to 127.0.0.1.
 220 studio FTP server (Version 6.00LS) ready.
 331 Password required for dan.
 230 User dan logged in.
 Remote system type is UNIX.
 Using binary mode to transfer files.
 binary
 200 Type set to I.
 lcd /tmp
 Local directory now: /tmp
 cd /
 250 CWD command successful.
 get COPYRIGHT
 local: COPYRIGHT remote: COPYRIGHT
 229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||62084|)
 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for 'COPYRIGHT' (6191 bytes).
 100% |*************************************|  6191      11.48 MB/s    00:00 ETA
 226 Transfer complete.
 6191 bytes received in 00:00 (6.32 MB/s)
 quit
 221 Goodbye.

 (dan at dan.19) /tmp> ls -l /COPYRIGHT COPYRIGHT
 -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  6191 Jan 13 11:14 /COPYRIGHT
 -rw-r--r--  1 dan   wheel  6191 Jan 13 11:14 COPYRIGHT

If all you really want to do is download a single file from a remote server,
you can give ftp a url-style commandline argument and it will log in and
download the file automatically:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ftp#AUTO-FETCHING_FILES

 (dan at dan.19) /tmp> ftp ftp://dan:xxxxx@127.0.0.1/%2fCOPYRIGHT 
 Connected to 127.0.0.1.
 220 studio FTP server (Version 6.00LS) ready.
 331 Password required for dan.
 230 User dan logged in.
 Remote system type is UNIX.
 Using binary mode to transfer files.
 200 Type set to I.
 local: COPYRIGHT remote: /COPYRIGHT
 229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||57935|)
 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for '/COPYRIGHT' (6191 bytes).
 100% |*************************************|  6191       4.42 MB/s    00:00 ETA
 226 Transfer complete.
 6191 bytes received in 00:00 (2.52 MB/s)
 221 Goodbye.


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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com