[SunHELP] How to trap ftp error codes

[Sandwich Maker]

"From: Naser Ali <Ali.Naser at irs.gov>
"
"I am trying to trap ftp return code or error code to make my automated ftp
"script more robust. Is there a way to accomplish this.
"
"Any pointers will be great help.

in ksh, $? is always the exit value of the last command executed.  so
you could do something like

#!/usr/bin/ksh -p

ftp <target> <<-EOFTP
.
.
.
.
bye
EOFTP

if (( $? ))
then	# nonzero, ftp failed
	print -u2 "\n${0##*/}: warning!  ftp failed!\nreturn code was $?\nerror number was $ERRNO\n"
else	# zero, ftp succeded
	print "hooray!  all done."
fi

btw, ksh supports $ERRNO, if that has any value.

you might also want to look into wget and/or curl.
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