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Hi
I am trying to get 3 files sitting on a FTP server to an application server.

All 3 files are .csv files. I am using mget *.csv and it transfers only 2 files.

the 3 files contain a common word in their file names "Report". I tried
mget *Report*.csv and that gets me 2 files as well.

Anyone know of any issues/limitations with mget

Thanks

Is it always the same file left behind?

Can you mget Report*.* ?
--> does this get that file

Yeah. Its always the same file that is left out.

I tried using mget *Report*.* and a interesting thing happened.

Let me summarize how the files are on the FTP server.

abc_Report_1.csv
abc_Report_1.xls
abc_Report_2.xls
abc_Report_1.xlsx
def_Report_1.csv
def_Report_1.xls
def_Report_2.xls
def_Report_1.xlsx
xyz_Report_1.csv
xyz_Report_1.xls
xyz_Report_2.xls

when I had the script with "mget *Report*.csv", I got the results as
abc_Report_1.csv
def_Report_1.csv

I tried *Report*.* and I got
abc_Report_1.csv
abc_Report_1.xls
abc_Report_2.xls

Any thoughts??

1) Please post "the script". We'll need to check which program is expanding the asterisks (Shell or FTP ?).

2) If you have Shell access on the FTP server, while in the target directory please post the output from these commands which are designed to make invisible characters visible:

Code:

ls -lab
ls -la | sed -n l

Please always post directory listings, program code and program output in CODE tags.

3) What Operating Systems and versions are you running on the source and target servers?

4) What Shell do you use?

5) If you are using anything other than the "ftp" which comes with your Operating System please specify what FTP package you have installed.

6) Do any of the filenames contain space characters or other non-alphanumeric characters, or are any of the filenames very long? It is easy to create a file on a unix or MSDOS computer which has a name which is invalid in FTP.