Shell Programming and Scripting

MDTM can help you here

Sorry, I didn't get whts MDTM means.
Can you please provide more description?

You can't ssh, because they are probably using an SFTP jail which only allows sftp connections not shell ssh.

I'll try to brainstorm, but you may have ot downlaod all the files and hten do your processing locally then run another get. THat being said, that would mean you would have to download them all every time which if they are large could be a problem.

Is it possibly for you to do that?

Code:

#!/bin/ksh
sftp host >filelist <<EOF
cd /u
ls -lt
quit
EOF

Will put an ls -l of remote /u in your current directory.
When I tried this is I was prompted for a password after I had typed EOF.

Ah yes, good call on that didn't think about just outputing it to a file and then you can sort your list from there and extract only those you don't have. Now, how to do that is beyond my scripting abilities, but I'm interested in the answer.

while using sftp, we can only use ls -l, So the files recived to local server will not be in publish time order.

Also, where this filelist file will get generated. on local drive / remote server ?

I executed the above script but do not see any file got created with file information.

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I can see the file filelist generated on local drive.
After that, I included the below code to get the latest files

Code:

###TO display the files generated in March month.

latest_file=`cat filelist | grep Mar | awk '{print $6,$7,$8,$9}'`

echo $latest_file

##To get the latest files from the above list using timestamp file.

getList=`find $latest_file -type f -newer timestamp.check 
-name "ABC*"`

echo $getList

But still I am getting the file Timestamp.check can not found which is available on my local drive.

Is the timestamp.check in the same directory that you are running these commands from? If not, make sure you put the full path.

Also, I don't think you can run find on the variable value of $latest_file. Y0u will probably need to find another command to extract the data.

Like getting the line, extracting the date value and comparing it to date -d "-15 minutes"