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delete old files from FTP server
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I just started learning Unix scripts. I need to access an FTP server, delete all the files except the latest 6 files and the latest 6 files should be downloaded to my local server. Could some body help me to code this logic in KSH ? Thanks Athena |
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Not really possible within KSH, afaik. If you explore Perl or Python, there are modules there to perform low-level FTP operations. Basically you would need to do something like this:
1. Login to site. 2. Get a directory listing. 3. For each file in the listing, perform a "stat" command, getting filesize and timestamp. 4. Sort file listing by time, separate into two groups (your last 6 and all others). 5. For all but the newest 6 files, delete them. 6. Download the 6. |
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