FTP via mel on OSX

[NateH]

Still having issues with the MEL command system on mac os x, I have a BASH script the automates my ftp process, but I cant for the life of me get it to run from inside of maya?

I have my bash script on my drive, I run system("/Volumes/FLASHDRIVE/ftp.txt"); and nothing happens. If i run /Volumes/FLASHDRIVE/ftp.txt from inside the BASH terminal on the mac it works perfectly, what am I doing wring here? Please excuse my lack of knowledge regarding the mac OS. Thanks.

[Bonedaddy]

You don't have any program associated with a .txt file. From the bash shell, it may be smart enough to understand that whatever.txt is a shell script, but not from within maya. I would try something like system("sh /Volumes/FLASHDRIVE/ftp.txt"). I haven't done any shell scripting in awhile, so that is probably wrong, but I hope it at least gets you on the right path. I know that if I was doing it in perl, I'd want to do something like "perl myFtpScript.pl -file /Volumes/FLASHDRIVE/myFile.ma"

[NateH]

Havnt had a chance to try it yet but that makes sense. Is perl built into all the OS X releases or just the newer ones(2.3 and up)? if it's in all i might just scrap the shell script and use perl instead. Anyways, thanks allot for the help.

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