Shell Programming and Scripting

Yes!!!

Okay, that changes things, when you just want a first and last number instead of a bunch of individual filenames. Working on it.

This is what my initial posting was .Sorry if the message was not conveyed properly .

I have a list of file names in a file and would like to search/grep the same names in the list of files on the ftp server and output to a file.

Let me brief it again .

my file.txt has few numbers

Ftp server has list of 13000 files.

based on my list which has 10 or 100 names of the file names and i want to see if those 10 or 100 files present on the FTP server and output to the file

That's just confusing the matter even more...

What do these numbers in files.txt actually mean if you're not actually looking for their literal strings? Are they ordered in ranges, first \n last \n first \n last \n first \n last \n ? Or what?

Let me tell you in Unix

Code:

$ ls -l |grep 471560-99999-2013.op.gz
-rw-r-----   1 ara2wj   nagp           0 Apr 23 14:23 471560-99999-2013.op.gz
(example files on the ftp server )

$ ls -l |grep 471560
-rw-r-----   1 ara2wj   nagp           0 Apr 23 14:23 471560-99999-2013.op.gz
(in my file i have 471560)

My file.txt has list of partial name of the files that are present ftp server, I need to search/grep on the ftp server to see if they are present and get the result to an output saying that they are there on the server

So you don't want a range match now? You do want literal strings?

The program as given works here... Perhaps you're in the wrong directory, perhaps you're not looking for where your files are appearing, perhaps you don't have permissions to write to the current folder, perhaps you don't have permissions to retrieve the files, or perhaps your search strings contain garbage you didn't intend (carriage returns?)

Yes i am looking for literal strings.


Perhaps you're in the wrong directory,
There is only one directory to search for the files

perhaps you're not looking for where your files are appearing,
Where should we look for the appearing files .

perhaps you don't have permissions to write to the current folder,
I dont need any permission as we are not putting or getting any file . We are just verifying if the file exist if so output to a txt file on the local server.

perhaps you don't have permissions to retrieve the files,
We are not getting any files from FTP server .

perhaps your search strings contain garbage you didn't intend (carriage returns?)
The example that i have given is a real example of the filename and the files in my text files .