UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi,

I am new to unix and I want to ftp files from unix to windows nt machine.
My requirement is like i want to ftp files which are having system date (20050927) in between the filename. Once i get into ftp mode, I am not able to execute the unix command the get the system date and to change it accordingly.
In unix i use `date +%Y%m%d` to get the date in the format specified.

How can i do the same in ftp mode ?
i want to ftp all files eg) mget *20050927* to the current location in nt.

Let me know how to go about it
I want to automate it so that it should fetch records pertaining to the current date to the target directory

Thanks in advance.

gops

Use a script so you can set a variable - example (note that it doesn't have DATE, but you can easily set that up and change it to your needs)