DOS Command Line Support

SEAGULL Secure FTP Pro uses command line switches so that SEAGULL Secure FTP Pro can be executed and controlled from a DOS Command Line Interface or a DOS batch file or even a Windows program or script.

SEE SEAGULL Secure FTP Pro Command Line Switch Table for a complete listing.

Basic Examples

If you want to launch SEAGULL Secure FTP Pro from a DOS batch file and include a configuration file named "config.zft" to start the SEAGULL Secure FTP Pro session, you would use the /F Command Line Switch.

"C:\progra~1\SEAGULL\SecureFTPPro\BZFTP.EXE" /Fconfig.zft

If you want to launch SEAGULL Secure FTP Pro from a DOS batch file and set the "Initial PC Directory" to a folder called C:\MyFiles, you would use the /I Command Line Switch.

"C:\progra~1\SEAGULL\SecureFTPPro\BZFTP.EXE" /Ic:\MyFiles

You can also combine Command Line Switches in one statement. For example, here's how it would look if you wanted to combine the two examples above.

"C:\progra~1\SEAGULL\SecureFTPPro\BZFTP.EXE" /Fconfig.zft /Ic:\MyFiles

Or, instead of including a configuration file in your DOS batch file, you could direct the batch file to use one of the existing FTP host connections that you have stored in your SEAGULL Secure FTP Pro Connection List. This list is zero based, so if you want to call the first connection in the list, you would use /Z0 as shown here:

"C:\progra~1\SEAGULL\SecureFTPPro\BZFTP.EXE" /Z0

Other Examples

Initial Commands (/L command line switch) are used to configure SEAGULL Secure FTP Pro to perform specific FTP commands upon connect. For example, suppose you wish to configure SEAGULL Secure FTP Pro to perform an upload of a file named "upload.txt" and then a download of a file named "download.txt" during your batch execution. The command line switch would be:

BZFTP.EXE /L"STOR upload.txt" /L"RETR download.txt" /L"EXIT"

The /L"EXIT" command line switch will close SEAGULL Secure FTP Pro once the Initial Commands complete.

Nested Double Quotes

There are sometimes issues with getting double quotes to appear inside other double quotes through a DOS batch file. In SEAGULL Secure FTP Pro we have implemented a special syntax that translates into a double quote and a blank space. The '&' translates into a double quote (") and the '%' translates into a blank space ( ). The following is an example of using this syntax:

BZFTP.EXE /L"STOR &upload.txt& upload" /L"EXIT"

This would translate the STOR command to "STOR "upload.txt" upload", which would upload the local file "upload.txt" to the host as "upload".

Double Double Quotes

Some scripting and programming languages support the use of "double double quotes". The following example shows the use of double double quotes when you are calling SEAGULL Secure FTP Pro to run from a program or script using the /Z and /L commend line switches.

Run "c:\program files\seagull\SecureFTPPro\bzftp.exe /Z0 /L""RETR F1201.CSV""

DOS Command Line Support