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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Pipe text in to find command Post 302593775 by juanjanse on Saturday 28th of January 2012 02:36:05 PM
Old 01-28-2012
Pipe text in to find command
I would like to know why this command does not work.
I have a script which connects to and ftp site.
After getting the remote files localy i need move each remote file to a archive folder on the FTP site

*Please also note that some of the files have spaces in the file name.

Im trying to extract the list of files names from the temp output file temp_rem_file_list.

Code:
 
echo "$TIME_STAMP - TEST MODE"
REMOTE_FILELIST=`ftp -in <<EOF
open $REMOTE_SERVER
user $USER $PW
cd $IN_REMOTE_SOURCE_DIR
ls
quit
 
echo $REMOTE_FILE_LIST > temp_rem_file_list
cat temp_rem_file_list
cat temp_rem_file_list |find "*.txt" -printf %f\\n >downloadList
echo "$TIME_STAMP - Printing download list"
cat downloadList
rm temp_rem_file_list
 
 
for SERVER_FILE in `cat downloadList`
 do
 echo "$TIME_STAMP - Server file processing is $SERVER_FILE"
   if [ -e "$IN_LOCAL_TARGET_DIR/$SERVER_FILE" ];then
   #if the file exists on the local machine
   else
   #File does not exist 
 fi

contents of temp_rem_file_list

Code:
 open localhost user if_jjan welcome1 cd Out ls drw-rw-rw- 1 ftp ftp 0 Jan 27 11:40 . drw-rw-rw- 1 ftp ftp 0 Jan 27 11:40 .. drw-rw-rw- 1 ftp ftp 0 Jan 26 00:33 archive -rw-rw-rw- 1 ftp ftp 0 Jan 27 11:21 test.txt -rw-rw-rw- 1 ftp ftp 0 Jan 27 11:22 UBS-test 1 test.txt -rw-rw-rw- 1 ftp ftp 0 Jan 27 11:23 UBS-test 2 test.txt quit

Line of code giving the problem.
Code:
 
cat temp_rem_file_list |find "*.txt" -printf %f\\n >downloadList

Im expecting downloadList to contain the following file names
test.txt
UBS-test 1 test.txt
UBS-test 2 test.txt

Thank you in advance for your time and for any pointers.
Last edited by juanjanse; 01-28-2012 at 06:30 PM..
 

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LEARN ABOUT SUSE

simpleftp

SIMPLEFTP(1)						    InterNetNews Documentation						      SIMPLEFTP(1)

NAME

       simpleftp - Rudimentary FTP client

SYNOPSIS

       simpleftp url [...]

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; e.g., <ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/CONFIG/active.gz> is stored as active.gz in the current directory.

       The script properly understands usernames, passwords and ports specified as follows:

	   ftp://user:password@host:port/path/file

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/pgpcontrol/> or
       <ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/CONFIG/> without requiring 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 downloaded files by simpleftp override existing files with the
       same name in the local directory.

HISTORY

       Tossed off by David C Lawrence <tale@isc.org> for InterNetNews.	Rewritten to use "Net::FTP" by Julien Elie.

       $Id: simpleftp.pod 8357 2009-02-27 17:56:00Z iulius $

SEE ALSO

       actsync(8).

INN 2.5.2							    2009-05-21							      SIMPLEFTP(1)
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