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Hello!

I am trying to compare a list of files in 2 directories - one on our unix server (I'll call it 'ours') and one on a site we ftp to (I'll call it 'ftp'). I need to make sure that after we ftp, the names that we put out there match the names we have on our side. I was thinking to create a textfile with the list of files in the directory on 'ours' and comparing it to a list of files on 'ftp'.

First part is easy:

for x in `ls *.*`
do
echo $x >> oursdir.txt
done

But does anyone know of a way to document a list of files from an ftp site so I can compare it with what's on our side that we sent?

Thanks in advance,

I'm not sure what 'document a list of files' means but let's try this:

Code:

echo "
open nodename
user username password
cd /path/i/want
ls
bye
" | ftp -n > document_of_files.txt