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Old 06-18-2013
FTP command to get most recent file
Hello Experts...
dir of FTP will list all the files in the directory. Is there any command or option of dir that will give me the most recent file only?
Since I couldn't find any such thing, I thought of creating a log file (of FTP results) and work on this log file to determine the most recent file name. Then go back to FTP and get this file. Does it sounds good?

regards,
juzz4fun
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Old 06-18-2013
When you post it helps if we know the OS you use and the shell (ksh, bash, etc).

The reason is: in this case there is a specific answer for Linux with GNU date.
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Old 06-19-2013
My apologies...
It is SunOS...and using ksh...
Sorry there is no GNU Smilie

---------- Post updated 06-19-13 at 10:32 AM ---------- Previous update was 06-18-13 at 07:17 PM ----------

I assume there is no such FTP command that gives me only the most recent file..
To get the work done, I have created a log file which contains the dir's output as shown:

Code:
Connected to XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX.
220 EFT Server 6.4.10 Build XX.XX.XXXX.X
331 Password required for XXXXX.
230 Login OK. Proceed.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp> 250 Folder changed to "/XX/XXXXXXX/XXXX/XXXX".
ftp> 200 Command okay.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list.
-rw-rw-rw-   1 user     group     8031232 Apr 13  2010 A100323.xls
-rw-rw-rw-   1 user     group     9041408 Jun 30  2010 A100628.xls
-rw-rw-rw-   1 user     group     4178690 Sep 30  2012 A100929.xlsx
-rw-rw-rw-   1 user     group     1800395 Dec 30  2010 A101230.xlsx
-rw-rw-rw-   1 user     group     1526971 Mar 31  2011 A110330.xlsx
-rw-rw-rw-   1 user     group     1789926 Sep 19  2011 A110630.xlsx
-rw-rw-rw-   1 user     group     2068925 Sep 13  2011 A110919.xlsx
-rw-rw-rw-   1 user     group     1945225 Sep 30  2011 A110929.xlsx
-rw-rw-rw-   1 user     group     1213118 Dec 30  2012 A111230.xlsx
-rw-rw-rw-   1 user     group     3449169 Feb 13  2012 A120213.xlsx
-rw-rw-rw-   1 user     group     8917313 Mar 30  2012 A120330.xlsx
-rw-rw-rw-   1 user     group     1323563 Jun 28  2012 A120626.xlsx
-rw-rw-rw-   1 user     group     1517358 Jan 27  2012 A120927.xlsx
-rw-rw-rw-   1 user     group     1926533 Dec 21  2012 A121231.xlsx
226 Transfer complete. 964 bytes transferred. 964 bps.
964 bytes received in 0.00022 seconds (4316.40 Kbytes/s)
ftp> 221 Service closing control connection.

Then I replaced Jan with 1, Feb with 2 and so on... this part of script I have written in scr file and execute it like ./scr. Output of scr is piped to below commands to get the most recent file name...
scr also contains grep '^-.*xlsx$' to get only the required rows from log file...

./scr | sort -k8n -k6n -k7n | tail -1 | awk '{print $NF}'

.... which gives me output as A111230.xlsx

Is there any way I can achieve the same result in some shorter way?
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