Automatically FTP files to or from a client

Source: IBM Technical Document # - 17675356 

To automatically FTP files to or from a client do the following: 

Create a text file with the FTP commands (see below for an example) Set 
the environment variable NETRC with the fully qualified name of the file 
with the commands Enter ftp hostname at the command prompt, for example 
ftp rs6000 
 

 Example for a FTP command file (The machine is rs6000, the userid is 
 bfw720 and the password is noa): 

  
   machine rs6000 login bfw720 password noa macdef init
   lcd c:/targetDir
   cd d:/sourceDir
   bin
   get file1.exe
   ascii
   get file2.txt
   bye
 

 You can define more than one macro in the file; each macro must begin 
 with 

  
 machine ... macdef init
 

 Note that you must use the slash / instead of the backslash \ in path 
 names. You can use all known ftp commands in the file (use the command 
 help inside of ftp to get a list of all known commands). To automatically 
 exit ftp after executing the commands the last command in the macro must 
 be bye. 

 To define different commands for one host use hostname aliase: Add the 
 aliase to the file /etc/hosts like 

  
   10.71.24.1      rs6000 rs6000a rs6000b rs6000c
 

 and define different macros for each hostname.