Eddie,
You may want to check out the "lftp" client. Lftp will accept FTP commands via a file, including the password.

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From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.M...] On Behalf Of Eddie Chen
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2012 5:22 PM
To: LINUX-390@VM.M...
Subject: EXTERNAL: Running SecureFTP in background mode using perl "expect"

  Hi folks,

       I have a perl script that issue SecureFTP(sftp) to automate the file transfer and the password prompt.

       When the script runs in the foreground, it works, and it takes the password.

        Example:

        [echen@startnet11 ~]$ ksh EDC.ksh Eddie.cmd

        userid@100.1000.100.100's password:
        sftp> put zvm.note zvm.note
        Uploading zvm.note to /users/nyse/zvm.note
        sftp> ls -l zvm.note
        -rwxr-x---    0 0        0             667 Jul 12 19:08 zvm.note
        sftp> bye

       Note: The input file "Eddie.cmd" contains the userid and password.

       When I run the script in background, the password prompts comes back to my terminal and not to the  script.

       Example:

       [echen@startnet11 ~]$ ksh EDC.ksh Eddie.cmd&
       [17] 8228

       userid@100.1000.100.100's password:

       Also when I do the "ps" I see the script sitting idle.

       echen    27044 27043  0 18:08 pts/9    00:00:00 sftp -b /tmp/sftp_batch27041 userid@cust...

  the question is, is there other way where I can get password working running in the background.

   my $expect = Expect->spawn("sftp -o 'BatchMode no' -b $BATCH $user\@$host");
   $expect->expect(10,"password:");
   $expect->send("$password\n");
   $expect->interact;

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