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# 8  
Old 03-06-2006
vgersh99, it seems to me that with nmap you are assigning values to variables ($1 and $3 in your example) and using those variables to re-format the string.

However, I did just realize that I also have to rename the _IN.TXT to lowercase. Does this mean the 2nd option is better?

Thanks again
# 9  
Old 03-06-2006
you can try:
Code:
ftp host
    nmap $1_$2_$3 $1_$3
    case
    mget SCA*.TXT

to map all CAPs to low case....
You can play with either 'nmap' and/or 'macdef' to get the desired result OR go the 'post processing' route, but it might interesting to figure out how to do it natively within ftp.
# 10  
Old 03-07-2006
Althought this is more complicated ,u can try:

for EXT_FILE in $(ftp -n ${HOST} < files.ftp | grep -vE "^Passive|^total" |grep -v active|awk -F\SCA '{print $2}')
do
echo ${EXT_FILE} >>files_ext-list.tmp
done

cat files_ext-list.tmp|while read EXT_FILE
do
EXT_FILE2="$(echo ${EXT_FILE}|awk -F\_ '{print $1}')_in.txt"
echo "define(EXT_FILE,${EXT_FILE}) define(EXT_FILE2,${EXT_FILE2})" > out.macros
cat out.macros download_files.ftp | m4 -B64556 > temp.ftp
ftp -n ${HOST} < temp.ftp
done


Where:


cat files.ftp

user username password
passive
dir
bye


cat download_files.ftp

user username password
passive
get "SCA""EXT_FILE" "SCA""EXT_FILE2"
bye


Cheers
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