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I am trying to create a text file (commands.txt) for FTP in Windows 7.

The file looks like this...

open 10.10.10.12 9999

USER anonymous

anonymous

GET file1.txt

bye

I then jump to a Command Prompt(administrative) and change directories to where my commands.txt file resides; I check it with dir command.

Then I run...

C:UsersUser1Scripts>ftp.exe -v -n -s:commands.txt

The terminal then shows me the help output for ftp.
I'm stumped to what I'm doing wrong here and I can't use a batch file for this, GUIs, or here-documents. Even if I could, it seems like this SHOULD work and it's killing me not knowing what I'm doing wrong.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks

windows-7 windows command-line ftp

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  What encoding did you save the file with? No BOM?
  
  – LotPings
  yesterday
  

  
  
  
  


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  Most command-line tools/commands show you help when you use invalid arguments. I have tried creating your commands.txt and running the command you specified and it tries to connect. Maybe you mistyped the filename or are in anothed directory, ftp.exe shows help when it can't find the file.
  
  – trogper
  yesterday
  

  
  
  
  


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  Note: In Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 or later operating systems, the text file must be written in UTF-8. Maybe even in windows 7. Check it...
  
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I am trying to create a text file (commands.txt) for FTP in Windows 7.

The file looks like this...

open 10.10.10.12 9999

USER anonymous

anonymous

GET file1.txt

bye

I then jump to a Command Prompt(administrative) and change directories to where my commands.txt file resides; I check it with dir command.

Then I run...

C:UsersUser1Scripts>ftp.exe -v -n -s:commands.txt

The terminal then shows me the help output for ftp.
I'm stumped to what I'm doing wrong here and I can't use a batch file for this, GUIs, or here-documents. Even if I could, it seems like this SHOULD work and it's killing me not knowing what I'm doing wrong.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks

windows-7 windows command-line ftp

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  What encoding did you save the file with? No BOM?
  
  – LotPings
  yesterday
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  Most command-line tools/commands show you help when you use invalid arguments. I have tried creating your commands.txt and running the command you specified and it tries to connect. Maybe you mistyped the filename or are in anothed directory, ftp.exe shows help when it can't find the file.
  
  – trogper
  yesterday
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  Note: In Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 or later operating systems, the text file must be written in UTF-8. Maybe even in windows 7. Check it...
  
  – Hastur
  yesterday
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment | 

I am trying to create a text file (commands.txt) for FTP in Windows 7.

The file looks like this...

open 10.10.10.12 9999

USER anonymous

anonymous

GET file1.txt

bye

I then jump to a Command Prompt(administrative) and change directories to where my commands.txt file resides; I check it with dir command.

Then I run...

C:UsersUser1Scripts>ftp.exe -v -n -s:commands.txt

The terminal then shows me the help output for ftp.
I'm stumped to what I'm doing wrong here and I can't use a batch file for this, GUIs, or here-documents. Even if I could, it seems like this SHOULD work and it's killing me not knowing what I'm doing wrong.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks

windows-7 windows command-line ftp

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open 10.10.10.12 9999

USER anonymous

anonymous

GET file1.txt

bye

C:UsersUser1Scripts>ftp.exe -v -n -s:commands.txt

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I have found the answer to my question. Shout-out to @LotPings for pointing me in the right direction.

The problem was with the way both notepad and the command prompt were encoding the characters.

Had to follow this advice...
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16598785/save-text-file-in-utf-8-encoding-using-cmd-exe

The answer was to change the code page using the chcp command.

Apparently my Windows7 box was encoding the file in a format that wasn't supported by ftp. Oddly, using the command prompt to echo the commands into a file suffered from the same problem.

I then used the chcp command

chcp 65001

This changes the encoding to UTF-8, then echo my commands into a file, then run ftp

ftp.exe -v -n -s:commands.txt

and I was golden.

I then changed back to code page 1252

chcp 1252

and all was right with the world.

Thanks for the help all!

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I have found the answer to my question. Shout-out to @LotPings for pointing me in the right direction.

The problem was with the way both notepad and the command prompt were encoding the characters.

Had to follow this advice...
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16598785/save-text-file-in-utf-8-encoding-using-cmd-exe

The answer was to change the code page using the chcp command.

Apparently my Windows7 box was encoding the file in a format that wasn't supported by ftp. Oddly, using the command prompt to echo the commands into a file suffered from the same problem.

I then used the chcp command

chcp 65001

This changes the encoding to UTF-8, then echo my commands into a file, then run ftp

ftp.exe -v -n -s:commands.txt

and I was golden.

I then changed back to code page 1252

chcp 1252

and all was right with the world.

Thanks for the help all!

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I have found the answer to my question. Shout-out to @LotPings for pointing me in the right direction.

The problem was with the way both notepad and the command prompt were encoding the characters.

Had to follow this advice...
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16598785/save-text-file-in-utf-8-encoding-using-cmd-exe

The answer was to change the code page using the chcp command.

Apparently my Windows7 box was encoding the file in a format that wasn't supported by ftp. Oddly, using the command prompt to echo the commands into a file suffered from the same problem.

I then used the chcp command

chcp 65001

This changes the encoding to UTF-8, then echo my commands into a file, then run ftp

ftp.exe -v -n -s:commands.txt

and I was golden.

I then changed back to code page 1252

chcp 1252

and all was right with the world.

Thanks for the help all!

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I have found the answer to my question. Shout-out to @LotPings for pointing me in the right direction.

The problem was with the way both notepad and the command prompt were encoding the characters.

Had to follow this advice...
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16598785/save-text-file-in-utf-8-encoding-using-cmd-exe

The answer was to change the code page using the chcp command.

Apparently my Windows7 box was encoding the file in a format that wasn't supported by ftp. Oddly, using the command prompt to echo the commands into a file suffered from the same problem.

I then used the chcp command

chcp 65001

This changes the encoding to UTF-8, then echo my commands into a file, then run ftp

ftp.exe -v -n -s:commands.txt

and I was golden.

I then changed back to code page 1252

chcp 1252

and all was right with the world.

Thanks for the help all!

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