We will be using shell script to automate the transfer between two FTP accounts. You’ll need shell access to the source FTP account.
#!/bin/bash
directory="/home/raisya/public_html"
filename="test.txt"
hostname="ftp.destination.com"
username="dest"
password="qwerty"
logfile="ftpf.log"
ftp -uni $hostname <<_ftp>>$logfile
quote USER $username
quote PASS $password
lcd $directory
put $filename
quit
EOF
Explanation:
directory="/home/raisya/public_html"
Assigning “/home/raisya/public_html” to directory.
filename="test.txt"
Assigning “test.txt” to filename.
hostname="ftp.destination.com"
Assigning “ftp.destination.com” to hostname.
username="dest"
Assigning “dest” to username.
password="qwerty"
Assigning “qwerty” to password.
logfile="ftpf.log"
Assigning “ftpf.log” to logfile.
ftp -uni $hostname <<_ftp>>$logfile
Initiate FTP connection to destination FTP account, with -uni switch and log the FTP connection to $logfile.
Switch:
u: Restrains ftp from attempting auto-authentication upon initial connection.
n: Restrains ftp from attempting ââauto-loginââ upon initial connection.
i: Turns off interactive prompting during multiple file transfers. This is optional here, since we only sending one file.
quote USER $username
Send FTP USER command.
quote PASS $password
Send FTP PASS command.
lcd $directory
Change local directory to $directory.
put $filename
Send $filename to destination FTP account.
quit
Stop FTP connection.
EOF
End Of File.
chmod the file to enable execution. Ie:
chmod 755 ftpscript.sh
To fully automate the process, you can set up a cron job for this. To run this every minutes:
* * * * * /home/raisya/ftpscript.sh