FTP/Windows/COmmand Line

How do I connect to my ftpserver from command line in just one command line.

For Example : ftp://hello.mydomain.com is my ftp server URL. I usually open a command prompt

Start -> Run -> cmd

and type ftp, which gives me the ftp prompt.

ftp> open hello.mydomain.com

It asks me the user id and password

username: me  
password: onlyme

And then I connect. However, I am trying to connect automatically without having the user id and password prompt?

something like

ftp>open hello.mydomain.com --username me --password onlyme

And it connects automatically without prompting the user ID and Password.

Anyway, this guy shows exactly how to do it:

ftp -s:script.txt ftp.server.com

and the contents of script.txt could be:

your_username
your_password
bin
cd /files
put file.zip
bye

where the first 2 lines of the file specify the username and password used for authentication.

This is an old post however, one alternative is to use the command options:

ftp -n -s:ftpcmd.txt

the -n will suppress the initial login and then the file contents would be: (replace the 127.0.0.1 with your FTP site url)

open 127.0.0.1
user myFTPuser myftppassword
other commands here...

This avoids the user/password on separate lines

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