FTP - Actions with cmd

[tannerli]

Hi Guys!

I hope someone can help me this time so easily as last time i was in trouble.....

I want to run a ftp-session in a cmd with the ftp-command... but not only on command, i have to read the answer from the ftp-server from the stdout-stream but if i call it like that

$PID=Run(@ComSpec & " /c ftp -n" & $HOST, @SystemDir, @SW_SHOW, $STDERR_CHILD + $STDOUT_CHILD + $STDIN_CHILD)
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same result, i can read from stdout but i closes the process automatically

i'd be grateful for any suggestions (i can't solve my problem with ftp.au3 which i already found)

Greetings

tannerli

[tannerli]

I've found the solution of the problem, it was a missing space after the "-n" bu now i got already a new one

it works if i run it like that

$PID=Run(@ComSpec & " /c ftp -n " & $HOST, "H:\", @SW_SHOW)
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the window appears only for a second (without any text) and then the cmd.exe process ends

Edited May 22, 2007 by tannerli

[PsaltyDS]

I'm not sure exactly what your issue is, but while trying to duplicate it I came across my own weirdness. This script just runs FTP, does 'help', then does 'quit':

Dim $OutStream, $ErrStream
$PID = Run("ftp -n", @TempDir, @SW_MINIMIZE, 7) ; 7 = connect to all streams
If Not @error Then
    StdinWrite($PID, "help" & @CRLF)
    $Timer = TimerInit()
    Do
        If StdoutRead($PID, 0, 1) Then $OutStream = StdoutRead($PID)
        If StderrRead($PID, 0, 1) Then $ErrStream = StderrRead($PID)
    Until TimerDiff($Timer) > 2000 ; read for 2 sec
    ConsoleWrite("STDOUT = " & $OutStream & @LF & "STDERR = " & $ErrStream & @LF)
    StdinWrite($PID, "quit" & @CRLF)
EndIf

The output shows:

STDOUT = Commands may be abbreviated.  Commands are:




STDERR =

So I'm seeing the output, but not all of it... weird...

Edited May 22, 2007 by PsaltyDS

[GMK]

I don't know what you want to do with the output returned by the server, but if a log suits your needs, this might help:

$PID = Run('"' & @ComSpec & '" /c ftp -n >ftplog.txt', @TempDir, @SW_HIDE, 7)
If Not @error Then
   ;Insert FTP commands here:
   StdinWrite($PID, "help" & @CRLF)
   StdinWrite($PID, "quit" & @CRLF)
EndIf
ProcessWaitClose("ftp.exe")
Run('notepad.exe "' & @TempDir & '\ftplog.txt"')

[PsaltyDS]

I don't know what you want to do with the output returned by the server, but if a log suits your needs, this might help:

$PID = Run('"' & @ComSpec & '" /c ftp -n >ftplog.txt', @TempDir, @SW_HIDE, 7)
If Not @error Then
   ;Insert FTP commands here:
   StdinWrite($PID, "help" & @CRLF)
   StdinWrite($PID, "quit" & @CRLF)
EndIf
ProcessWaitClose("ftp.exe")
Run('notepad.exe "' & @TempDir & '\ftplog.txt"')

That works, but only adds to the confusion.

Your code uses standard_i/o_flag of 7 (same as my code earlier) which means all of them:

1 ($STDIN_CHILD) = Provide a handle to the child's STDIN stream

2 ($STDOUT_CHILD) = Provide a handle to the child's STDOUT stream

4 ($STDERR_CHILD) = Provide a handle to the child's STDERR stream

If the STDOUT and STDERR have been hooked by AutoIt, why does the data show up in the log file? And when the log file option was not used (in mine), why did the first line of 'help' show up and not the list of commands?

The windows console is a strange, conflicted place to work...

[tannerli]

The windows console is a strange, conflicted place to work...

How very true......

If the STDOUT and STDERR have been hooked by AutoIt, why does the data show up in the log file? And when the log file option was not used (in mine), why did the first line of 'help' show up and not the list of commands?

I didn't solve my problem but i think i know why this happens...

You start a cmd.exe process and control its data streams, cmd.exe itself starts ftp.exe and cmd controls the streams of ftp so you dont have the control about the ftp

(And i think cmd passes its input to ftp so you can indirectly control ftp)

[Jon]

test

[PsaltyDS]

How very true......

I didn't solve my problem but i think i know why this happens...

You start a cmd.exe process and control its data streams, cmd.exe itself starts ftp.exe and cmd controls the streams of ftp so you dont have the control about the ftp

(And i think cmd passes its input to ftp so you can indirectly control ftp)

Hmm...

Your script used @ComSpec, and therefor opened a shell with cmd.exe, passing parameters after " /c " for the command. Mine ran ftp.exe directly without directly invoking the shell.

But I think in the background windows saw it as a console app and did the exact same thing anyway.

On the up side, I think there are others working on a scriptable, interactive ftp client in AutoIt. Search the Example Scripts forum especially for them.

[GaryFrost]

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Little problem today?

[GaryFrost]

I'll take that as a yes.

[GaryFrost]

Would suggest going to the test thread till you get it fixed.

[Gif]

strange thread

[herewasplato]

Would suggest going to the test thread till you get it fixed.

Each attempted post timed out.

Once I saw the partial posts, I deleted them and the forum showed me that the delete function worked. My partial posts were gone.

I posted to and deleted from the Chat/test thread.

I PM'd Jon - hence his test post to this thread.

I PM'd PsaltyDS - and PsaltyDS was able to post.

I posted to another thread without any problems - it was just this thread.

I cleared temp cache, exited IE6 - but still could not post to this thread...

Now that I can - all that I wanted to say was try Run("ftp") with all of the STDIO stuff. Don't go thru CMD.

Of course, I could be wrong and maybe the AutoIt gods were just attempting to keep me from looking like a fool by not letting me post that suggestions - but I'll show them. I can look like a fool even without posting to this thread!

-MSSSSSP-

[PsaltyDS]

I cleared temp cache, exited IE6 - but still could not post to this thread...

MS Internet Exploder...

"Well, THERE'S your problem..."

- Jamie Hynaman (Myth Busters)

Didja' try it in Firefox?

[herewasplato]

...Firefox?...

:-)

I don't have that installed atm on my office system and I figured it had to be a forum issue to have shown the deletions as completed. Perhaps I was only seeing/deleting some of the partial posts.

Have we (like I helped) solved the OP's issue?

Edited July 31, 2007 by herewasplato

[tannerli]

Dim $OutStream, $ErrStream
$PID = Run("ftp -n", @TempDir, @SW_MINIMIZE, 7) ; 7 = connect to all streams
If Not @error Then
    StdinWrite($PID, "help" & @CRLF)
    $Timer = TimerInit()
    Do
        If StdoutRead($PID, 0, 1) Then $OutStream = StdoutRead($PID)
        If StderrRead($PID, 0, 1) Then $ErrStream = StderrRead($PID)
    Until TimerDiff($Timer) > 2000 ; read for 2 sec
    ConsoleWrite("STDOUT = " & $OutStream & @LF & "STDERR = " & $ErrStream & @LF)
    StdinWrite($PID, "quit" & @CRLF)
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$PID = Run("ftp -n", @TempDir, @SW_MINIMIZE, 7) ; 7 = connect to all streams
If Not @error Then
    StdinWrite($PID, "help" & @CRLF)
    Sleep(2000)
    If StdoutRead($PID, 0, 1) Then $OutStream = StdoutRead($PID)
    If StderrRead($PID, 0, 1) Then $ErrStream = StderrRead($PID)
    ConsoleWrite("STDOUT = " & $OutStream & @LF & "STDERR = " & $ErrStream & @LF)
    StdinWrite($PID, "quit" & @CRLF)
EndIf

Greetings, tannerli