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02-26-2018

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Originally Posted by Don Cragun

You said "YES, they are there, all files." which does not say they are of type text and does not clearly state whether or not your files' names end with .txt or not.

As I mentioned before they are text file which ends with

Code:

.txt

as type of file.
The last file name is missing 'e'. All daily files have different name but everyday the same files would be created(minute and second are not important).

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abcd_part_2018-02-26_100004.txt
mnpg_part_2018-02-26_100012.txt
fdop_part_2018-02-26_100026.txt
cdpm_part_2018-02-26_100120.txt
abcde_part_2018-02-26_100135.txt

Quote:

Originally Posted by Don Cragun

What are you trying to do?

Sending some text files to a remote server by ftp. Files are created daily at 10 am.

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Originally Posted by Don Cragun

Do you want to move all of the files with the proper timestamp? Or, if there is more than one file with a given initial part of the pattern with different timestamps, do you just want to send the first of that base name or the last of that base name?

As I wrote, daily files have different name, but they differ in timestamp.

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Originally Posted by Don Cragun

Are you expecting to get at least one (or exactly one) file matching each of your initial file base name patterns during that hour every day?

YES. Then the script should find 5 match(above files) in directory and send them via ftp.
In the directory where the files are located there are more than 300 files with the same name but different date and time and I want to send only daily files, then I can't run your suggested command.

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