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Hello,

I have a file at remote server. I have to select only current day's files that are dropped on ftp server. The files do not have date or timestamp on them.

so I plan to get the file listing from remote server to the local server. Based on file listing date I can find out when the files are dropped. (by comparing with the current day's date)

I have a ftp script and I am using these commands to get the file listing date to the local directory.

Code:

ftp <host_name>
ftp <user>
ftp <password>
dir <dir>
200 PORT command successful
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list
-rw-rw-r--   1 <uuu>  <kkk>   160384 Apr 13  19:38 walmart.txt
226 Transfer complete
ftp> lcd <local_dir>
ftp> dir walgreens.txt lcd
output ot local-file: lcd? y
200 PORT command successful
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list
226 Transfer complete
ftp> bye

now I find lcd on my local directory,

Code:

-rw-r--r--    1 <usr>   <usr>              69 Apr 15 16:49 lcd

And when I do "vi lcd" (or "more lcd") I find this,

Code:

-rw-rw-r--   1 <uuu>  <kkk>   160384 Apr 13  19:38 walmart.txt

Can somone please tell me, after I get the file to local directory, how do I find out if the file is current day file using a korn shell script.

Thanks
pavan

This should work providing that none of the filenames contain space characters:

Code:

TODAY="`date '+%b %e'`"        # Mmm dD
grep "${TODAY}" lcd | awk '{print $9}' | while read filename
do
        echo "File dated today: ${filename}"
done

Tip: When you come to script your ftp directory enquiry note that invoking ftp as ftp -i will stop it asking the question about creating the directory listing file.

Thank you. the code works