Getting exit status code from 'ftp' command in linux shell

Question

I need to retrive the exit status code from a command line program. No worries, I used $?. But for ftp, even if it doesn\'t connect, it opens the ftp shell, so I\'m not able

Answer 1

The last time I needed to use ftp in a script, I got so frustrated with it that I finally found a BSD-licensed ftp client source and simply modified it to give it the behavior I needed, and used that instead of the version provided with the OS.

Ugly, but the depth of head-level dents in the cube wall was starting to get ridiculous