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Old 09-01-2011
ftp concern
Good Day,

I am new to scripting and i am creating this ftp script which would transfer files from a certain directory (directorydd), but i want to let the user input a specific date for that directory:

my script is:
Code:
#ftp
#!/bin/ksh
set -x

echo "Enter date <dd>:"
read a

ftp -vin 10.131.3.94 << "EOF" 
#open 10.x.x.132
user ryan xxxxxx

cd /home/ryan/sample/aug${a}/part # not changing directory
mget dataaug2011.txt

bye
EOF

Upon running script
Code:
$ sh sample.sh
+ echo Enter date <dd>:
Enter date <dd>:
+ read a
31
+ ftp -vin 10.x.x.x
+ 0< /tmp/sh27865154.2
Connected to 10.x.x.x.
220 testserver FTP server (Revision 1.1 Version wuftpd-2.6.1(PHNE_34698) Fri Nov 10 10:21:03 GMT 2006) ready.
?Invalid command
331 Password required for ryan.
230 User ryan logged in.
550 /home/ryan/sampe/aug${a}/part: No such file or directory.
dataaug2011.txt: No such file or directory.
can't find list of remote files, oops
221-You have transferred 0 bytes in 0 files.
221-Total traffic for this session was 516 bytes in 0 transfers.
221-Thank you for using the FTP service on testserver.
221 Goodbye.

your help would be highly appreciated.

thank you.
Last edited by Scott; 09-01-2011 at 05:18 PM.. Reason: Code tags
# 2  
Old 09-01-2011
Usually, one asks up front, validates the answer, and then writes the whole ftp script with this variable embedded where desired. If the date is related to the usual run time, then a default can be generated usig `date '+%...'`.
# 3  
Old 09-01-2011
hi the date of the folder created is minus 1 of the current system date..i tried using the date command but to no avail Smilie
# 4  
Old 09-01-2011
Do you have gnu/linux 'date'? The originals lacked offsetting.

--date=STRING is a mostly free format human readable date string such as "Sun, 29 Feb 2004 16:21:42 -0800" or "2004-02-29 16:21:42" or even "next Thursday".

Code:
date --date=yesterday '+%d'

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ryan_estiya
# 5  
Old 09-01-2011
yes i do have..i'll give this one a try..thank you
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