transfering file using FTP commands

[Guest pandurang]

hi,

 

i am writing script to transfer files from FTP server using inbuilt FTP

utility commands.On FTP server files that i want to copy resides in a folder

with the name as 100308 it is 3rd October 2008(mmddyy) so can you tell me how

to get the Date of FTP server and extract the month,date and year from the

system date so that i will create a string by concatenating month,date and

year and will copy the whole folder that will match with the string. I was

not able to find the date command in FTP.

i also need to extract the minutes and hours from the date using FTP command.

Do we need to change to the shell of the FTP server and get the date.

 

Also can i copy the whole folder using FTP commands??? if not what should i

use to copy the whole folder???

[Guest Tim Slattery]

Re: transfering file using FTP commands

 

pandurang <pandurang@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>i am writing script to transfer files from FTP server using inbuilt FTP

>utility commands.On FTP server files that i want to copy resides in a folder

>with the name as 100308 it is 3rd October 2008(mmddyy) so can you tell me how

>to get the Date of FTP server and extract the month,date and year from the

>system date so that i will create a string by concatenating month,date and

>year and will copy the whole folder that will match with the string. I was

>not able to find the date command in FTP.

 

I think you'd have to run some process that would build your FTP

command script dynamically. It could be C, C++, Perl, whatever you're

comfortable with. (I'm not sure a shell script - *.bat or *.cmd file -

can manipulate strings like that.) The process would construct the

directory name, then use that to write the FTP command file, then

invoke FTP.

>i also need to extract the minutes and hours from the date using FTP command.

>Do we need to change to the shell of the FTP server and get the date.

 

I think your stuck there, as long as you're using FTP. I don't think

you can "shell out" to the server.

>Also can i copy the whole folder using FTP commands??? if not what should i

>use to copy the whole folder???

 

Once you CD into the directory, you can use the MGET command to get

all the files.

 

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