FTP - Automatic Login

If you frequently find yourself calling FTP from the command line, each time having to login and change directory and change FTP modes, until you finally get where you want be in order to do some real work then you may wish to get there with a singe click.

This little batch can connect to your FTP server and logs you in before it gives you the prompt. You can easily add more FTP commands to it, like changing directories or switching to binary mode or whatever you like to be done before taking over control on the FTP prompt.

The FTP connection information is embedded within the batch itself. The batch connects to an FTP server by executing itself in FTP context using the FTP -s option. Once executing in FTP context it executes all FTP commands listed in the file. By omitting the final FTP "bye" command it will stop at the FTP prompt and wait for user input.

Optionally a FTP script can be provided as input stream, that way multiple FTP scripts can share the same login information. Example:

FtpLogin.bat <script1.ftp