Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi ,
I'm not so new to linux but very very rusty. Trying to migrate my solar / wind power web server from Windows XP runnning apache to linux. I have the first part of the ftp down as you can see below. I'm having a problem once I have identified the daily file. I'm not being very clear with my code to allow me to ftp the file from the controller to my linux server.

Any thoughts would be appriciated.


bash autoftp.sh >autoftp.txt | tail -n1 autoftp.txt >recent.txt |
tail -c15 recent.txt >solar_ftp_file.txt | cat solar_ftp_file.txt

I'm FTp to a controller running windows CE 4.2. I ftp to the box and run a list of the files in the directory. Then I tail it to get the most recent entry. Then I tail again to isolate and identifiyng the most recent file (Today) and putting it into a file solar_ftp_file.txt. Once I have the file name I try to integrate the file name into the ftp script.

I can't seem to integrate it to an FTP script to extract the file to my linux box. The goal is to bring the csv file to the linux box for processing.

the second FTP file to extract the file from the controller to the linux box.

#!/bin/bash

HOST='webbox'
USER='User'
PASSWD='sma'
FILE={cat solar_ftp_file.txt}

ftp -i -n $HOST <<EndFTP
user ${USER} ${PASSWD}

cd DATA
cd 2008
bin
hash
prompt
get ${FILE}
bye
EndFTP

Hi, I might be way off, but since I'm asking for help, I might as well try to give some while I'm at it =)

If I understand correctly, you've managed to create/fill solar_ftp_file.txt properly; you just need the script in your second post to take it's contents and set a variable?

If so, you might change the braces in

FILE={cat solar_ftp_file.txt}

to '`' (reverse single quote -- I can't remember it's proper name)

FILE=`cat solar_ftp_file.txt`

When I modified the script to grab a test file from my inhouse ftp server, it worked once I made that change.

Hope that helps =)

Thank you,

That was it. I have since streamlined things as well.