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# 8  
Old 02-03-2010
Is this actually a shell script or are you typing the commands at a command prompt?

There is a unix command called "get".
# 9  
Old 02-03-2010
just for fun:
Code:
ant:/opt/oracle $ touch "This is the long file namelong.PDF"
ant:/opt/oracle $ ll -lt|more
total 4
-rw-rw-r--   1 vbe        dba              0 Feb  3 18:52 This is the long file namelong.PDF
drwxrws--x   4 vbe        dba           1024 Jan 19 15:11 cstat
drwxrwsr-x   2 vbe        dba             96 Jun 30  2009 toto
drwxrwxr-x   5 oracle     dba           1024 Jun 23  2009 oraInventory
drwxrwsr-x   3 oracle     dba             96 Jun 23  2009 product
ant:/opt/oracle $ lfn="This*is*the*long*file*namelong.PDF"  
ant:/opt/oracle $ echo $lfn
This is the long file namelong.PDF
ant:/opt/oracle $ rm $lfn
ant:/opt/oracle $ r ll
ll -lt|more
total 4
drwxrws--x   4 vbe        dba           1024 Jan 19 15:11 cstat
drwxrwsr-x   2 vbe        dba             96 Jun 30  2009 toto
drwxrwxr-x   5 oracle     dba           1024 Jun 23  2009 oraInventory
drwxrwsr-x   3 oracle     dba             96 Jun 23  2009 product

# 10  
Old 02-03-2010
Well I am trying at the ksh prompt for now, when I will have it working I will create a script ......
Thanks.
# 11  
Old 02-03-2010
My good guess!

The unix shell $variable_name substitution will not work at the ftp prompt. The ftp program is not shell and just treats a dollar sign as a character. For shell substitution to work it has to be in a shell script where the substitution takes place first and then the parameters are passed to the ftp program. There are plenty of examples on this website of how to use unix shell "here" documents to feed ftp with parameters.

Hope this helps.
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