How to script FTP upload and download

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It’s a reasonable idea to want to script an FTP session the way the original poster imagined, and that is the kind of thing Expect would help with. Batch files on Windows cannot do this.

But rather than doing cURL or Expect, you may find it easier to script the FTP interaction with PowerShell. It’s a different model, in that you are not directly scripting the text to send to the FTP server. Instead you will use PowerShell to manipulate objects that generate the FTP dialogue for you.

Upload:

$File = "D:\Dev\somefilename.zip"
$ftp = "ftp://username:[email protected]/pub/incoming/somefilename.zip"

"ftp url: $ftp"

$webclient = New-Object System.Net.WebClient
$uri = New-Object System.Uri($ftp)

"Uploading $File..."

$webclient.UploadFile($uri, $File)

Download:

$File = "c:\store\somefilename.zip"
$ftp = "ftp://username:[email protected]/pub/outbound/somefilename.zip"

"ftp url: $ftp"

$webclient = New-Object System.Net.WebClient
$uri = New-Object System.Uri($ftp)

"Downloading $File..."

$webclient.DownloadFile($uri, $File)

You need PowerShell to do this. If you are not aware, PowerShell is a shell like cmd.exe which runs your .bat files. But PowerShell runs .ps1 files, and is quite a bit more powerful. PowerShell is a free add-on to Windows and will be built-in to future versions of Windows. Get it here.

Source: http://poshcode.org/1134

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