Hi,

The task that I need to do is connect from Unix box to Windows server and get the latest *.txt file (there might be several files in a directory on Windows server). From what I understand ftp does not allow to pass "ls -lt" and therefore I am unable to determine which file is the latest and therefore the one I need to get.
Another option is to bring all *.txt files from Windows into Unix box - but this way the files loose their time stamp and I am still unable to determine which file is the latest.
Any help will be greatly appreciated

Since I don't have a Windows system running ftp, I can't check this but normally, ftp has two commands to show a directory and files, dir and ls.

ls will show just files.

dir will show files with timestamps. A quick test shows that it is the modified timestamp - maybe this will help.

Thank you very much