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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Sindi Keesan wrote:
> >
> > Is it possible to make some sort of alias for the download 
> > with wget and just give the path/filename each time?  
> 
> A script would probably be better.
> 
> > in /root/.profile (where I just put alias pico="e3pi")?
> 
> Does the pico alias actually work?  I could be wrong, but
> I don't think /root/.profile is used for shell startup.  
> AFAIK BL3 has only two startup files:  /etc/rc   /etc/profile

That explains why I could not find .profile.  Did not try my alias yet but 
I will put any others in /etc/profile.


> 
> > alias get="wget ftp://username:password@ftpaddress//"; %1     
> > alias put="ftpput -u username -p password ftpaddress" %1
> 
> I would be very surprised if you could get an alias to do
> what you want (although I am often surprise with what can
> be done in Linux).  For starters that %1 will have to go.
> 
> Doing scripts for those is easy.  Something like this 
> should work:
> -------------------------------------------
> #!/sh
> wget ftp://username:password@ftpaddress//$1
> -------------------------------------------
> Or you could do something more complicated with a menu
> (select put or get) and then input the location and
> filename.

> When it is done, stick the script in the path somewhere 
> (eg /usr/sbin).

I think I used %1 in lynx.cfg for downloaders and viewers.  I guess 
scripts use a different language.  I should read about it.

BL2 does not have ftpput.  I will ask kermit support if there is some way
to use it from a script to put and get ftp files non-interactively.

> 
> Cheers,
> Steven
> 
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