Eric; Yes; two different ways, in terminal, and on the internet [it was the same man page BTW]. neither shed any light on what I'm doing wrong.. Russell On Jun 1, 2010, at 4:00 PM, ecrist at secure-computing.net wrote: > Have you tried `man ftp`? > Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile > > -----Original Message----- > From: Russell McGaha <russellmcgaha at mac.com> > Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2010 15:52:33 > To: A place to discuss Mac OS X from the perspective of the command line.<x-unix at listserver.themacintoshguy.com> > Subject: [X-Unix] ftp question > > Folks; > I'm trying to script an upload to a ftp site: > I can log into the ftp site with the script, but I can't figure out how to upload the file. Here's what I'm doing: > ftp ftp;//username:password at ftpsite:21/path > this gets me to the directory were I want to upload the file, and gets me an "ftp>" prompt. I've tried passing a "-u /fullPathToLocalFile" on that same line with no luck. I've also tried using "put /fullPathToLocalFile" on a new line, also without success. WHAT am I doing wrong > > Russell > > _______________________________________________ > X-Unix mailing list > X-Unix at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/x-unix > > _______________________________________________ > X-Unix mailing list > X-Unix at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/x-unix