How to create a .BAT
file to download file or folder from FTP server? (and replace with it existing file) (we have links like ftp://me:[email protected]/file.file
(or http://example.com/file.file) and absolute file link like C:\Users\UserName\Some mixed Русский English Adress\file.file
) (using only native windows (xp vista win7 etc) BAT functions and files)
Here is an example of how to automate the built-in ftp.exe
tool:
The example is about uploading, but the principle is the same (just use get
instead of put
).
Still, since this is just "piping commands" into ftp.exe, I recommend not to do this for production-quality batch files (no error handling, etc.), but to use some external tool instead. I provided this answer only because you explicitly asked for a solution that only uses Windows built-in commands.
EDIT: Here's a concrete example:
REM replace this with your user name and password
REM make sure there is no space between the pwd and the >>
echo user me > getftp.dat
echo mypass>> getftp.dat
echo binary >> getftp.dat
REM replace this with the remote dir (or remove, if not required)
echo cd remoteSubDir >> getftp.dat
REM replace this with the local dir
echo lcd C:\Users\UserName\SomeLocalSubDir >> getftp.dat
REM replace this with the file name
echo get file.file >> getftp.dat
echo quit >> getftp.dat
REM replace this with the server name
ftp -n -s:getftp.dat example.com
del getftp.dat
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