while read FILENAME
do
  cp ${FTP}/$FILENAME ${EXPORT}/nz.$FILENAME
  if [ $? -eq 0 ]
    then
      let NUM_COPIED=`expr $NUM_COPIED+1`
     DAY=$(ll $FTP | awk '/$FILENAME/ {print $6 $7 substr($8,1,5)}' )
     echo "*** FTP file from $DAY "
     RECORDS=$(cat $FTP/$FILENAME |wc -l )
     echo '*** Number of $FILENAME records = ' $RECORDS
  fi
  done < ${FTP}/fwcsales_filenames.txt

Output:
awk: There is a regular expression error.
        Invalid pattern.
 The input line number is 1.
 The source line number is 1.
*** FTP file from
*** Number of $FILENAME records =  256

DAY=$(ll $FTP/$FILENAME | awk '"$FILENAME" {print $6 $7 substr($8,1,5)}' )