How do I ftp a file from a shell script every 10 minutes?

Jan, 7 -- Categories: Linux

Actually the real question would be why would you want to do that? Well it a long story and I didn’t have many other options but here’s how I did it.

First a shell script that looks something like this:

#!/bin/bash

filename="needed.xml"
pathto="userdirectory/datadirectory/"
hostname="123.123.123.123"
username="username"
password="password"

cd /directory/where/the/file/goes/
ftp -n $hostname < quote USER $username
quote PASS $password

binary
cd $pathto
get $filename
quit
EOF

cool... then a cron job that calls that code every 10 minutes:

*/10 * * * * /home/user/diectory/mygetfile.sh