How to Execute a FTP Script....

[lvramanan]

Hi Guys,
How should I execute a FTP Script to do some action on a FTP Server. For example to get all files from a selected directory of a site we should use the command mget *.*. How should I execute this Script so that I can copy all the files from a FTP Site to the Local Harddrive. Advance thanks for those helping...

[jim mcnamara]

Suppose you have a node - 10.10.10.10
with: username = john
password hello
directory where you need to find files is c:\mypath
You want all of the files form that directory put into
c:\storage on the machine running the script

Here's the ftp script - we named it myscript.ftp
and it lives in c:\

open 10.10.10.10
john
hello
cd \mypath
lcd \storage
mget *.*
bye

If we were to pretend that you wanted to run the script interactively at the DOS prompt, the command to run it is:

ftp -is:c:myscript.ftp


If you want to run this from inside VB

Public Declare Function GetWindowsDirectory Lib "kernel32" Alias "GetWindowsDirectoryA" (ByVal lpBuffer As String, ByVal nSize As Long) As Long


Sub RunFTP()
        Dim WindowsDir as string
        Dim retval as long, nSize as Long
        Dim cmd$
        WindowsDir = Space(255)
        retval = GetWindowsDirectory(WindowsDir, nSize)
        WindowsDir = left(WindowsDir, nSize)
        cmd$ = WindowsDir & "ftp -is:c:myscript.ftp"
        Shell cmd$, vbNormalFocus
End Sub

[jim mcnamara]

Here is WinInet sample VB code - vbftpjr from MSDN

This show how to implement a full-blown ftp application.
It is a fair amount of code.
Enjoy....

[lvramanan]

I Asked about executing the mget*.*. I know how to use the Get and Put using the Inet Control. Anyway thanks for your code.
Regards,
Ramanan.

[jim mcnamara]

There is no one-to-one correspondence between mget and some WinInet call or single api.

You have to look up the host files, then request each one you want be downloaded.

In other words, you have to figure out how to do mget - the code shows you how to loop thru and get files in a remote directory, then download them.

Plus, the code is not using the Inet control.

hth