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Problem in Downloading one day old files from FTP site
Post 302275126 by JerryHone on Friday 9th of January 2009 10:32:13 AM
01-09-2009
Hmmm! 
The OS on the local server where you're running your script won't affect anything. As I said previously, the 'ls' is actually being run by the remote server FTP daemon, so it all depends how that machine is setup. For the Sun servers that I connect to, both 'ls' and 'ls -l' are viable commands.
Can you rsh (remote shell) to the FTP server and pull back any file information that way,or even use rcp to fetch them?
Can you get the remote file system mounted on your local server so you don't need to use FTP at all?
Or get whatever process generates the files that you're retrieving to date/timestamp them ie <filename>.20090109_152500?
If none of those, I think I'm all out of ideas!
Jerry
The OS on the local server where you're running your script won't affect anything. As I said previously, the 'ls' is actually being run by the remote server FTP daemon, so it all depends how that machine is setup. For the Sun servers that I connect to, both 'ls' and 'ls -l' are viable commands.
Can you rsh (remote shell) to the FTP server and pull back any file information that way,or even use rcp to fetch them?
Can you get the remote file system mounted on your local server so you don't need to use FTP at all?
Or get whatever process generates the files that you're retrieving to date/timestamp them ie <filename>.20090109_152500?
If none of those, I think I'm all out of ideas!
Jerry
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simpleftp
SIMPLEFTP(1) General Commands Manual SIMPLEFTP(1) NAME
simpleftp - rudimentary ftp client SYNOPSIS
simpleftp ftp://... [ ... ] 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; i.e., ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/CONFIG/active.gz is stored as active.gz in the current directory. 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/usenet/CONFIG/ without requir- ing 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 simpleftp does not understand the complete syntax of URLs, only the hostname and pathname parts -- it will not under- stand username, password, port or parameter strings. HISTORY
Tossed off by David C Lawrence <tale@isc.org> for InterNetNews. SEE ALSO
actsync(8). SIMPLEFTP(1)