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I would like to create a cron job that uploads files from a directory on my computer to my FTP server. I would like it to do it daily at midnight. I know pretty much nothing about cron, so I apologize if I sound stupid!
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I would like to create a cron job that uploads files from a directory on my computer to my FTP server. I would like it to do it daily at midnight. I know pretty much nothing about cron, so I apologize if I sound stupid!
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This is an FTP sample script to transfer one file: (Note you can use an FQDN instead of IP)
#!/bin/bash
# $1 is the file name for the you want to tranfer
# usage: this_script <filename>
IP_address="xx.xxx.xx.xx"
username="remote_ftp_username"
domain = sample.domain.ftp
password= password
ftp -n > ftp_$$.log <<EOF
verbose
open $IP_address
USER $username $password
put $1
bye
EOF
Add the > ftp_$$.log
only if you need logging.
Then you can use the
crontab -e
command to edit the cronjob table and add your script.
This is an Example:
If you liked to have a the script above, (assume you have it in home and its name is myscript.sh) /home/myscript.sh, run every day at 2am, you have to do:
# crontab -e
and then you have to add the following entry:
0 2 * * * /home/myscript.sh
As a reference, here you have a crontab entry parameters meaning:
* * * * * command to be executed
- - - - -
| | | | |
| | | | ----- Day of week (0 - 7) (Sunday=0 or 7)
| | | ------- Month (1 - 12)
| | --------- Day of month (1 - 31)
| ----------- Hour (0 - 23)
------------- Minute (0 - 59)
This tutorial could also help you.
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man crontab will show you what you need. You'll want something like:
0 0 * * * yourScript.sh
in your crontab file. Note that scripts under cron
run with a cut-down environment, so you'll have to specify your env settings that the script requires in that script.
2This should go on to superuser.com as this is not a programming related question. – t0mm13b – 2010-05-22T15:38:04.460