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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Ftp script with date Post 303000644 by apmcd47 on Monday 17th of July 2017 05:45:34 AM
Old 07-17-2017
Quote:
Originally Posted by fretagi
Hi

I am trying a different way of doing that by copying the last file to a directory, them ftp the file to another server, but my cp command is failing with syntax error such as:

Code:
 pwd
/opt/fundamo/reports
-bash-3.00$ ls -lrt FundamoSettlement* | tail -1
-rw-r--r--   1 fundamo  fundamo   604080 Jul 17 02:18 FundamoSettlement_1500250109585.csv
-bash-3.00$ cp -p `ls -lrt FundamoSettlement* | tail -1` /opt/fundamo/reports/tobesent/
cp: illegal option -- w
cp: illegal option -- -
cp: illegal option -- -
cp: illegal option -- -
cp: illegal option -- -
cp: illegal option -- -
Usage: cp [-f] [-i] [-p] [-@] f1 f2
       cp [-f] [-i] [-p] [-@] f1 ... fn d1
       cp -r|-R [-H|-L|-P] [-f] [-i] [-p] [-@] d1 ... dn-1 dn
-bash-3.00$

please can you help?
The problem is you are passing the output of ls -l into cp. The cp command is effectively:
Code:
cp -rw-r--r--   1 fundamo  fundamo   604080 Jul 17 02:18 FundamoSettlement_1500250109585.csv /opt/fundamo/reports/tobesent/

Try
Code:
cp $(ls -1t FundamoSettlement* | head -1) /opt/fundamo/reports/tobesent/

In this case ls will list only the filenames. By removing the -r from ls and using head instead of tail you may also reduce time, particularly if the directory has hundreds of matching files.

Andrew
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