Recently i developed an e commerce site that sends the order directly to a distributor for shipping after the bank transactions…
Being a relatively new nerd, i work best destroying someone else’s code (script lion)… so here’s a lil contribution since every example i googled was (significantly) different. Here is a bash script that will upload files if your using a typical Media Temple server using Linux / CentOS 5… Script will also move the files to a new directory… just delete if you don’t want to move anything when your done…

#!/bin/bash
set -m
theDate="$(date +%Y-%m-%d)"

ftp -vinp ftp.urAddress.com <
quote USER yourusername
quote PASS 9assword
cd Upload
binary
put /path/to/your/file/PO850.xml ‘date +%d_%m_%y’_PO850.xml
quit
EOF

cp /path/to/your/file/*.xml /path/to/your/other_directory/

rm /path/to/your/file/*.xml

exit 0

Hope this helps someone… oh… and to the younger script kiddies… don’t be afraid of Linux… shits, tit after a bit!