Linux: Automated FTP Speed Test Bash Script

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Linux: Automated FTP Speed Test Bash Script
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If you haven’t noticed, my posting has slowed to a crawl lately. I have been very busy at working on maintaining hundreds of systems and that leaves little time for much else. Enough with excuses and on to a bash script that you might be interested in.

image by Kirill

Ever have bandwidth issues and wish you could automated the testing process instead of manually testing every other hour of the day? I have.

By using the bash script below we are able to automate an upload and download of a file and email the speed results.

Bash [Show Styled Code]:

#!/bin/sh

cd /path/to/choosen/working/dir
filename="/path/to/test.file"
hostname="ftp.server.com"
username="user"
password="password"
echo -e "***FTP SERVER DOWNLOAD SPEED***\n" >> speedtest.log
ftp -inv $hostname >> speedtest.log  <> speedtest.log
ftp -inv $hostname >> speedtest.log  <> email.log
mail -s "Speed Test Results" youremail@whateva.com < /path/to/choosen/working/dir/email.log
rm /path/to/choosen/working/dir/speedtest.log
rm /path/to/choosen/working/dir/email.log

Bash [Show Plain Code]:

#!/bin/sh
 
cd /path/to/choosen/working/dir
filename="/path/to/test.file"
hostname="ftp.server.com"
username="user"
password="password"
echo -e "***FTP SERVER DOWNLOAD SPEED***\n" >> speedtest.log
ftp -inv $hostname >> speedtest.log  <<EOF
quote USER $username
quote PASS $password
binary
put $filename
bye
EOF
 
echo -e "\n"
echo -e "***FTP SERVER UPLOAD SPEED***\n" >> speedtest.log
ftp -inv $hostname >> speedtest.log  <<EOF
quote USER $username
quote PASS $password
binary
get $filename
bye
EOF
 
#REMOVE GARBAGE (REMOVE EVERY LINE EXCEPT FOR ONES CONTAINING ‘*’ AND ‘MB’) FROM LOG FILE AND EMAIL IT
sed -n -e ‘/*/p’ -e ‘/MB/p’ speedtest.log >> email.log
mail -s "Speed Test Results" youremail@whateva.com < /path/to/choosen/working/dir/email.log
rm /path/to/choosen/working/dir/speedtest.log
rm /path/to/choosen/working/dir/email.log 