Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,
I want to concatenate the filename with the current date using the get command in ftp.
for ex:
<filename><date>
emp101_20080526
Can you please let me know the command for this.

thanks,
Aswarth.

Have you tried to simply assign the variables and then use

$FILENAME$DATE

try this:

fileName=emp101_`date +%Y%m%d`

get $fileName

hi,
can you please let me know if there is any command in ftp to pick the latest file in a folder.
for ex the filename is concatenated with date and timestamp like this.
emp001_20080516053646.dat
emp001_20080517053646.dat
emp001_20080518053646.dat
where in the format of date is yyyymmddhhmmss

thanks,
Aswarth

Pick up the latest file in a variable, using the following command:

Code:

latest_file=`ll -ltr | tail -1`

Use the variable latest_file in your ftp.

Thanks!
nua7

but that folder contains other files apart from the files that I have mentioned.
so how can include the file name in the comand that you have given me like emp_oo1
thanks,
aswarth

u can make use of the find command with the using the following flags
- amin n.................................. for last accessed time
- cmin n.................................. for last changed time
- mmin n.................................for last data modification time

n is the no of minutes ago...

for instance
$ find -name <file name> -ctime 2

this should work just fine