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Old 03-25-2009
How to FTP files of perticular pattern.
Hi,

I have a almost 4000 files in a perticular directory, but i want to ftp only todays files to some other unix server, not all the files.

could you please help me on this.

file formates are,

Code:
-rw-r--r--   1 pipe     pipe            341 Mar  9 12:35 ALTIMUS_BILL09MAR2009_1222_36499.DAT
-rw-r--r--   1 pipe     pipe        2925001 Mar  9 13:35 BILL09MAR2009_1302_36469.DAT
-rw-r--r--   1 pipe     pipe            341 Mar  9 13:35 ALTIMUS_BILL09MAR2009_1333_36518.DAT
-rw-r--r--   1 pipe     pipe            341 Mar  9 13:35 ALTIMUS_BILL09MAR2009_1328_36517.DAT
-rw-r--r--   1 pipe     pipe            341 Mar  9 14:05 ALTIMUS_BILL09MAR2009_1403_36520.DAT
-rw-r--r--   1 pipe     pipe            341 Mar  9 15:05 ALTIMUS_BILL09MAR2009_1443_36522.DAT
-rw-r--r--   1 pipe     pipe            598 Mar  9 15:40 BILL09MAR2009_1506_36506.DAT
-rw-r--r--   1 pipe     pipe            341 Mar  9 15:40 BILL09MAR2009_1506_36501.DAT
-rw-r--r--   1 pipe     pipe            855 Mar  9 15:40 ALTIMUS_BILL09MAR2009_1506_36509.DAT
-rw-r--r--   1 pipe     pipe          22186 Mar  9 15:40 ALTIMUS_BILL09MAR2009_1506_36508.DAT
-rw-r--r--   1 pipe     pipe           5481 Mar  9 15:40 ALTIMUS_BILL09MAR2009_1506_36507.DAT
-rw-r--r--   1 pipe     pipe         155826 Mar  9 15:40 ALTIMUS_BILL09MAR2009_1506_36506.DAT
-rw-r--r--   1 pipe     pipe          19873 Mar  9 15:40 ALTIMUS_BILL09MAR2009_1506_36504.DAT
-rw-r--r--   1 pipe     pipe           8308 Mar  9 15:40 ALTIMUS_BILL09MAR2009_1506_36503.DAT
-rw-r--r--   1 pipe     pipe            341 Mar  9 15:40 ALTIMUS_BILL09MAR2009_1506_36502.DAT
-rw-r--r--   1 pipe     pipe          50970 Mar  9 15:40 ALTIMUS_BILL09MAR2009_1506_36501.DAT
-rw-r--r--   1 pipe     pipe            341 Mar  9 15:40 ALTIMUS_BILL09MAR2009_1505_36523.DAT
-rw-r--r--   1 pipe     pipe            341 Mar  9 16:35 ALTIMUS_BILL09MAR2009_1634_36530.DAT
-rw-r--r--   1 pipe     pipe            341 Mar  9 16:35 ALTIMUS_BILL09MAR2009_1632_36529.DAT
-rw-r--r--   1 pipe     pipe            341 Mar  9 16:35 ALTIMUS_BILL09MAR2009_1631_36528.DAT

Last edited by Yogesh Sawant; 03-25-2009 at 06:32 AM.. Reason: added code tags
# 2  
Old 03-25-2009
Code:
#!/usr/bin/ksh

today=$(date "+%d%b%Y"|tr "[a-z]" "[A-Z]")
ftp -n -v <unix_server_id> <<-FTP
user <user-id> <password>
prom
mput *${today}*
bye
FTP

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