I've recently written a shell script to automate packet capturing & debugs on some of my firewalls, however I've run into an issue; Unless I transfer said script to the firewalls via ASCII mode ...

Does this have to be FTP? If not, I would use rsync to keep the two trees in sync. You can use it on Windows if you have Cygwin installed. You could use ssh as the ...

The importance of automating processes can’t be overestimated. Most things start out as a manual procedure until you work out exactly how things should happen, but many times they stay that way ...