FTP with PowerShell using built-in Windows FTP client

ftp.ps1

# as discussed here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1867385/upload-files-with-ftp-using-powershell

$server = "ftp.lolcats.com"
$filelist = "file1.txt file2.txt"   

"open $server
user $user $password
binary  
cd $dir     
" +
($filelist.split(' ') | %{ "put ""$_""`n" }) | ftp -i -in