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  3. February 2008

Re: FTP file naming issue

I wonder... doesn't he already know the name of the file, leastways the first few characters? Can't he mget file* and get all of the files that have the right beginning characters? After that its fairly trivial, I believe?

James Lampert wrote:
Tim Gornall wrote:
I'm trying to automate a process that retrieves a file via FTP from a vendor
that is named using a date/time stamp. In other words, the file name will
dynamically change each time it is created. Can I rename this file on
either end somehow? If I use GET I must know the file name to begin with.
If I use MGET with a wild card, I can get the file, but I can't specify the
destination name, so now I have a file in my IFS but I don't know the name.
It appears RENAME does not support wildcards, etc. Is anyone doing
something similar? Thanks, Tim

Is there a way you could examine a directory listing on the FTP server?



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