On Jun 7, 2006, at 14:00, Stockly, Ed wrote:

> I've got a shell script that I've been using on a server that's  
> called by intellitune after a photo is processed. It needs to FTP a  
> file to a specific address. (This is all internal, behind our  
> firewall and security is not a big concern.)
>
> If I type the script in to the terminal it works, which is good,  
> because that's also how I'm learning shell scripting and debugging  
> these scripts.
>
> The problem is that if I run the identical command in a "do shell  
> script foo" it fails. As a workaround I'm using terminal, but I'd  
> prefer to not call up another app and would prefer to just run it  
> as a do shell script.
> Is this doable? Is there a way to make the do shell script and  
> terminal run consistently?
>
> Here's the script I'm having trouble with:
>
> set ftpShellScript to "ftp -d -v -u ftp://" & remoteUserid & ":" &  
> remotePassword & "@" & remoteServer & ":21" & remotePath & fileName  
> & " " & localFile
> tell application "Terminal"
> 	do script ftpShellScript
> 	delay 3
> 	set shellScriptLog to contents of window 1
> end tell
> Ed	


It works!
At least it works here.
I believe it works there as well... you get an error message, but you  
should get the same error message in Terminal. Terminal simply by- 
passes it.
The problem is, you would be downloading files to the root directory.  
To download the files to your user root directory  try the following

set ftpShellScript to "cd ~/; ftp   ftp://" & remoteUserid & ":" &  
remotePassword & "@" & remoteServer & ":21" & remotePath & fileName:
do shell script ftpShellScript

If you use the -u option, you will get the error you are getting now.  
And, you will not download the file.

The command above copies the file remotePath /fileName in the ftp  
host to ~/fileName in your Mac.

Deivy