I have an automated sftp process running on a Linux server that is securely connecting to an insurance company server whereby the insurance company places work assignments into a directory on their windows server (running VanDyke Vshell).

My unattended (background) process runs every minute. There is private/public key authentication that is working fine.

Its goal is to retrieve any new records in the Assignments directory, and after retrieving them, post them back to a directory called ProcessedAssignments. After sending them back, the process clears the Assignments directory.

This process works perfectly 99.9% of the time. Once in a great while, I accidentally remove a new record that was just placed in the Assignments directory between the time I did a 'get' and a 'put' and the time I do an rm * on the Assignments directory.

I have searched everywhere for a 'best practices' for this type of recurring file transfer with no results.

I'm trying to find a snippet of code somewhere that will allow me to create a list of the records I got/put, and only remove those records from the Assignments directory.

Code to generate script from Basic program here:

Code:

SCRIPT = ""
SCRIPT<-1> = "cd /Assignments" ;* Change external directory
SCRIPT<-1> = "get * ":CUSTOMER.INBOUND.DIRECTORY
SCRIPT<-1> = "cd /ProcessedAssignments":
SCRIPT<-1> = "put ":CUSTOMER.INBOUND.DIRECTORY:"/* ":
SCRIPT<-1> = "cd /Assignments"
SCRIPT<-1> = "rm * "
SCRIPT<-1> = "quit"
SCRIPT<-1> = "eof"

My problem is with the rm * statement.

So, I need to somehow pass a list to my script generator after performing the get, or I need to somehow tag the records I 'got' and only delete those...
Any help would be greatly appreciated.