get latest file via ftp command

alx · #1 (**permalink**) 01-25-2006

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

RTM · #2 (**permalink**) 01-26-2006

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.

alx · #3 (**permalink**) 01-26-2006

Thank you very much

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