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# 1  
Old 10-25-2010
MGET Problem
Hello friends..

I'm new here ate the forum. I came across with it when trying to find a solution for a problem I have and I hope you can help me.

I'm an Abap programmer, and I have to make a program in ABAP to copy files from a server to the local computer defined path using FTP commands.

I was looking at these commands and I sucessfuly managed to copy ONE file from the server (FTP) to the local machine using:

Code:
get get <source_filename> <destination_path_&_filename>

But as I want to copy several files, I tried the following:

Code:
mget * <destination_path>

the execution says that all went well as u can see below

Code:
mget * d:\RJM\                                                               
200 PORT command successful                                                  
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for 1_NG_NG20100101.dat (2323 bytes)  
226 Transfer complete                                                        
2323 bytes received in 0.00 seconds (2.27 Kbytes/s)                          
200 PORT command successful                                                  
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for 5_NG_NG20100713.dat (7665 bytes) 
226 Transfer complete                                                        
7665 bytes received in 0.01 seconds (499.02 Kbytes/s)                        
200 PORT command successful                                                  
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for 5_NG_SOCGL.dat (7665 bytes)      
226 Transfer complete                                                        
7665 bytes received in 0.00 seconds (7.49 Kbytes/s)                          
200 PORT command successful                                                  
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for 6_NG_NG20100713.dat (8295 bytes) 
226 Transfer complete                                                        
8295 bytes received in 0.17 seconds (47.10 Kbytes/s)

but when I go to the destination path, there are no files there...

can anyone help me please?

Best regards,
Bleeding_me
# 2  
Old 10-25-2010
Hi,

I think the files were transfered to your current directory. Your desination path was considered to be a file to transfer. The easiest solution would be to change to the local destination directory and then get the files:
Code:
lcd d:\RJM
mget *

Stefan
# 3  
Old 10-25-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by cero
Hi,

I think the files were transfered to your current directory. Your desination path was considered to be a file to transfer. The easiest solution would be to change to the local destination directory and then get the files:
Code:
lcd d:\RJM
mget *

Stefan
Thanx a lot cero, it worked like a charm Smilie...now I can start programing the rest of the code Smilie


Now if I may, i have another question with another command...the MPUT.

i tried to put 2 files, that I have in D:\RJM, into the FTP...it copies the files and the files are there but instead of being with the name ABC.dat (for example) they stay with the name D:\RJM\ABC.dat .... any way to get around this ? (i'm sorry for these questions but I'm a noob in FTP )...

Best regards,
Bleeding_me
# 4  
Old 10-26-2010
PUT, or MPUT
I think that the problem here is if you fully name the source file, then that is what the target will be called, from the directory you are connected to. A similar solution to the previous post is to make your local current directory correct first:-
Code:
lcd d:\RJM
mput *

An alternate is to fully specify the files
Code:
put d:\RJM\file1 file1
put d:\RJM\file2 file2

... but obviously that is more cumbersome.



I hope that this helps.Smilie


Robin
Last edited by rbatte1; 10-27-2010 at 04:58 AM.. Reason: Adding code tags (as I have been chastised)
# 5  
Old 10-26-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by rbatte1
I think that the problem here is if you fully name the source file, then that is what the target will be called, from the directory you are connected to. A similar solution to the previous post is to make your local current directory correct first:-
lcd d:\RJM
mput *
An alternate is to fully specify the files
put d:\RJM\file1 file1
put d:\RJM\file2 file2
... but obviously that is more cumbersome.



I hope that this helps.Smilie


Robin
Thanx rbatte1 I'll try that one.

Bleeding_me
# 6  
Old 10-27-2010
What Operating System is the computer on which you are typing the "ftp" commands.
What Operating System is the other computer.

(I suspect that you may be using MSDOS filenames on a unix computer).
 
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