I just wrote echo "open $mainframe\ \nuser $mf_username $mf_password \nsite lr=160\ \ncd ..\ \nmput \*\ \nquit" | ftp -i -n -v > $ftp_log 2>&1

I just wrote echo "open $mainframe\ \nuser $mf_username $mf_password \nsite lr=160\ \ncd ..\ \nmput \*\ \nquit" | ftp -i -n -v > $ftp_log 2>&1 The program collected data from the telephone company's Nortel MD110 switches, tidied it up and sent it to their mainframes.