On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 10:03:38PM -0500, Doug wrote:
> I know I've done this in windows so I'm assuming it's possible in Linux
> as well. I'd like to set up an automated ftp job to send a file. Can the
> command line ftp in linux do this or do I need another tool? I looked at
> it a bit earlier and couldn't really find anything on doing this (man
> ftp etc...) or did I just miss something???

man expect

or, if expect isn't already on your system, see the web page:

http://expect.nist.gov/

or, if you prefer Perl, maybe use libwww-perl:

perldoc LWP

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