Batch file download from ftp

 ·  · Tags: FTP Get, Schedule Batch file, Schedule FTP Download, scheduled download of file, Scheduled FTP Transfer, Windows Task Scheduler. 0. Recently, I wanted to download a file from an external server to one of our local servers. Well, having the required authentication, the simple method was to get the file using FTP. So I simply created a Estimated Reading Time: 3 mins.  · Batch Script for conversion of WAV files to MP3 automatically by traversing through sub-directories 1 Batch file - date variables and moving files with Reviews: 2. I know there is an FTP command which can be run from command line on Windows, and it downloads a file from an FTP site. User + password are specified in "that" one-line cmd. These options + password passtrough should be on that command bltadwin.rus: 1.

Outside of email, probably the most common way to send files to a remote party is via FTP. While there are a plethora of FTP clients you can choose from, Windows has an little known and under utilized command line FTP utility built in. The beauty of this tool lies in it's ability to be scripted which we have harnessed in the batch script below. I'm trying to use a batch file to download a package off my FTP server. echo username bltadwin.ru echo bltadwin.ru echo cd directory bltadwin.ru echo get filename bltadwin.ru ftp -s:bltadwin.ru bltadwin.ru The server is set to allow anonymous logins on username but when I run the script I get an error: Password required for username. Suppose you want to download files from ftp location containing some text or keywords like "batch ". It will download all files containing word "batch". Replace this code in Section 6 as below.

Notice that this batch file accepts an argument (%1) and passes the value to the script. Here's how it looked like when I executed the batch file to "download" the file named bltadwin.ru bltadwin.ru is the argument we passed to the batch file, which in turn passed it on to the FTP script. I know there is an FTP command which can be run from command line on Windows, and it downloads a file from an FTP site. User + password are specified in "that" one-line cmd. These options + password passtrough should be on that command line. To create a semi interactive FTP script, you may need to split it into several smaller parts, like an unattended FTP script to read a list of remote files, the output of which is redirected to a temporary file, which in turn is used by a batch file to create a new unattended FTP script on the fly to download and/or delete some of these files.