ncftpput replacement

[Karl Berry]

The gnupload script (which is in gnulib) depends on ncftpput.  I found
it easier to write a replacement using plain old command line ftp than
to install ncftp.

Any objections to my putting this in gnulib/build-aux?
I know it doesn't have all the bells and whistles it should, but hey, this is a
tertiary thing only interesting for GNU maintainers ...

karl


#!/bin/sh
# 
# Copyright 2008 Free Software Foundation.
# 
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License,
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#
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# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
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# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
#
# Original author: Karl Berry.
# Bug reports and correspondence to address@hidden
# 
# This is a minimal replacement for ncftpput using standard ftp.
# It was written for use with the Automake gnupload script for machines
# without ncftpput, e.g., rename it to ncftpput and put it in your PATH.
# 
# The arguments are:
# host dir file1 file2 ...

host=$1; shift
dir=$1; shift

newline="
"

mputs=
for f
do
  if test ! -s "$f"; then
    echo "$0: $f not readable or empty, goodbye." >&2
    exit 1
  fi
  target=`basename "$f"`
  mputs="${mputs}put $f $target$newline"
done

if test "$dir" = .; then
  dir=
else
  dir="cd $dir"
fi

ftp -i $host <<END_SESSION
$dir
bin
verbose
$mputs
quit
END_SESSION