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Old 02-07-2012
Help with renaming files in remote server
I have to write a script to get some files from remote server using FTP and rename it after the FTP. I use wildcard to get the file as i do not no the exact file name or the number of files in the remote server.

My script is similar to the following...
Code:
#!/bin/sh
LOG=/Log/ftp.log
ftp (FTP server) <<EOF
ls ABC*.dat list.txt >> $LOG
mget ABC*.dat >> $LOG
bye
EOF

I read from previous post that a rename is not possible with wildcard. And someone else suggested using a list to get the files in the remote server and try to rename it with that.

But i did not find how to do that. Could any of you help me in this?

Thank you.
Last edited by Franklin52; 02-08-2012 at 05:45 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags for code and data samples, thank you
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simpleftp

SIMPLEFTP(1)						    InterNetNews Documentation						      SIMPLEFTP(1)

NAME

       simpleftp - Rudimentary FTP client

SYNOPSIS

       simpleftp url [...]

DESCRIPTION

       simpleftp is a Perl script that provides basic support for fetching files with FTP in a batch oriented fashion.	It takes one or more FTP
       URLs on the command line.  The file(s) will be retrieved from the remote server and placed in the current directory with the same basename
       as on the remote; e.g., <ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/CONFIG/active.gz> is stored as active.gz in the current directory.

       The script properly understands usernames, passwords and ports specified as follows:

	   ftp://user:password@host:port/path/file

BUGS

       simpleftp is an extremely poor substitute for more complete programs like the freely available wget or ncftp utilities.	It was written
       only to provide elementary support in INN for non-interactive fetching of the files in <ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/pgpcontrol/> or
       <ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/CONFIG/> without requiring administrators to install yet another package.	Its shortcomings as a general
       purpose program are too numerous to mention, but one that stands out is that downloaded files by simpleftp override existing files with the
       same name in the local directory.

HISTORY

       Tossed off by David C Lawrence <tale@isc.org> for InterNetNews.	Rewritten to use "Net::FTP" by Julien Elie.

       $Id: simpleftp.pod 8357 2009-02-27 17:56:00Z iulius $

SEE ALSO

       actsync(8).

INN 2.5.2							    2009-05-21							      SIMPLEFTP(1)