Just ftp it, chmod it, and run it, all from within ftp:

ftp some.ip.add.ress
cd /
site rw
put fidsift.sh
chmod 755 fidsift.sh
site exec fidsift.sh
...
site ro
quit

Hmmm.... doesn't work.

Is it because some of the commands (like chmod and site exec) aren't native to ftp and thus ftp can't run them?

My old batch file had "literal site rw" instead of just "site rw", and adding that word made that command work, but none of the others did.

Maybe we really can't run this using ftp? More likely, though, is that I'm doing some bonehead thing that is incorrect and messing up the works...

tanstaafl.