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Old 03-02-2011
Question retreiving file name in a variable on ftp
Hi ,
I need to retreive the file name in an variable on the ftp server.Can you guy please let me know how can i do that.I need some thing like

connect to ftp <<eof
new_variable=`ls *_1_AUDIT.txt *_2_AUDIT.txt` (but on a ftp server)
mget $new_variable
>>eof
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Old 03-02-2011
Looking through your previous posts I realise that we know nothing about your systems.

What Operating System and version are you running on the source and destination computers? If Microsoft is involved, please make it clear whether you are running all-Microsoft products or some other ftp software.

What unix Shell do you use?
Do you have "ftp" or "sftp"?

Overview of the problem:
ftp is not Shell. You cannot use Shell syntax in an ftp command line. In a previous posts you were guided towards a non-ftp solution using unix "ssh" and "sftp" but this depended on whether both the servers had this software installed and working.

If you really only have ftp, then this needs to be done in two stages:
1) ftp session to produce a Directory Listing to a file.
2) Process the Directory Listing file in unix Shell.
 
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