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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers SFTP script - poll every min to check file complete before transfering Post 302342393 by srineel on Sunday 9th of August 2009 12:15:26 PM
Old 08-09-2009
SFTP script
Actually I'm on AIX. Here's a general algorithm on what i'm trying to do.

first_time = true
while /usr/bin/true
do
if first_time ()
ftp get file,
name it as file_1
first_time=false
sleep 100
else
get file, name it as file_2
file_2_size =ls -l | tr -s " " | cut -d" " -f5
file_1_size =ls -l | tr -s " " | cut -d" " -f5
if file_2_size == file_1_size
then
exit loop
else (if file_2.size > file_1.size then
copy file_1 = file_2
sleep 100
fi
fi
done

I guess I need this transalated to unix format. Thanks for the help.

-Neel

---------- Post updated at 12:15 PM ---------- Previous update was at 12:11 PM ----------

Actually this is a second option, if somehow I can do the sleep on the remote server and check the file sizes (before and after) then that should be better than downloading the files to the client and doing the compare.

Thanks -Neel
 

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LEARN ABOUT REDHAT

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).

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