Hi,

After connecting to the remote server by using FTP i need to know the file name residing on the remote path....So that that file name i can pass as a parameter to the main program...FTP program will get called from the main program....

Please let me know the solution.

sorry .. i am not able to undrstand ur requirement.
You should know the filename you want to FTP !!!
there can be lots of files in any specific remote path....

You can get them listed by "ls".

i will be having just one file at a time in remote path.....by using ls i will list it....but how will i pass that file name as parameter to main program....?

This is one approach...



Getval=`ftp -n -i $RemoteHost <<EOF 2>&1
user $user $Passwd
cd $RemotePath
ls
bye
EOF`

RemoteFile=`echo $Getval | grep $user | awk '{ print $NF }'`
echo $RemoteFile


you can change the grep parameter as per ur pattern ( date or something else) to filter the "ls" string.

You can remove grep ...
this should work...