I am creating a script on the fly to ftp some files from a remote computer. I create a file which is then called from the command line with
ftp -s:filename proxy
where filename is the file I just created. The file has code similar to the following:
anonymous@ip address
username
prompt off
binary
cd c:\destination directory
mget c:\source directory\*.*
quit
That doesn't work. Neither does the following:
anonymous@ip address
username
prompt off
binary
cd c:\source directory
mput c:\destination directory
quit
Obviously, I'm not so good at ftp. How, in what order, where in my file do I specify the place where I want the files to be put (destination directory, and also from where the ftp process is running), and where I want the files to come from (ip address computer which has files I want). Do I need to set the directory before starting the ftp process?
I'm running this in an SSIS package, and I'm not using the SSIS ftp task, because I don't want a failure if no files are found. If there's nothing there, that's cool. If there is something there, I want a copy.
(It was working in my development area, and now, when I'm trying to get files from a server that I truely have no access to except ftp, I'm not getting anything. See How to avoid SSIS FTP task from failing when there are no files to download? for an earlier, related question.)
Update: Both of the answers below, listing lcd and cd, are correct. However, my example still failed, until I replaced the backslashes with forward slashes. In other words, my final, working result is as follows:
anonymous@ip address
username
prompt off
binary
lcd /destination directory
cd /source directory
mget *.*
quit
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