Hi Cameron,

FILE=`ls -t ${REQUIRED_FILETYPE}* | sed '1q'`

I tried this,, it would not work, because the ls executed on ftp is not the same as the actual ls as mention in the previous mail.

i wished it would work, so that the work become little easier

here is the output if run ls and pipe its output to sed

ftp> ls -t UT* | sed '1p'
usage: ls remote-directory local-file
ftp>

RUV