FTP in UNIX with Error Handling

This script will handle FTP in UNIX and errors also.

UNIX command $? Will not capture error status, so error message has to be written to a log file and then read.

error_log=/tmp/error_log.log

lc_server_name="your.ftp.server.name"

echo "1" $lc_server_name

ftp -i -n -d<<EOF >$error_log

open $lc_server_name

user userid password

bye

EOF

result=`grep -c 'Not connected.' error_log.log`

result1=`grep -c 'Login failed.' error_log.log`

echo $result

echo $result1

if [ ${result} -gt 0 -o ${result1} -gt 0 ]; then

echo "Connect to FTP failed"

else

echo "Connection Successful"

fi