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I am new to the shell scripts. I just want to know automated cronjob script to download all the ftp files. Now, I am downloading manually approx 600 MB. From now onwards I have the download the files on Every saturday. Please let me know the easiest sollution.

Thanks & Regards,

G.Gopi Krishna.

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You can do a wget every sunday. With the login and the FTP password on the line, the download starts automatically. You can do a mirror to download only the differences, and do a tar or what you want after the download.

Make a small script, and ask cron to launch it every sunday.

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Or Saturday, as in the OP's question. – Dennis Williamson Jul 5 '10 at 9:41
Oops, I was tired, I have an error on the day. thanks ! – Dom Jul 5 '10 at 13:20
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You already have it: use cron.

0 0 * * 6 download_file.sh
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