Change the password in 30 days in sftp script.

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Hi,

I'm writing a script which actually sftp's(gets!! i'm using mget) files from a windows box to unix server. (i've gone thru forum and got pretty good answers, Thx for that).

but the windows box to which i'm ftp'g prompts for a password change every 30 days. so please suggest me how to do this.

also based on file name i need to ftp files to a different location, for example..

if file name is xxx0173.052305 then i need to read this name and according to whats in place of 173 i need to push it to a specific folder say d173 or if its 125 the file should go to d125.

Thanks in advance all..

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The first problem is not easy, but second one is:

filename="xxx0173.052305"
print - "$filename" | sed 's/^xxx0\([^.]*\).*$/\1/'    # will yield "173"

# hence (we assume the variable $filename to be there):

typeset chFileSig="$(print - "$filename" | sed 's/^xxx0\([^.]*\).*$/\1/')"

mv $filename /path/to/dir/d${chFileSig}

Hope this helps.

bakunin

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yeah thats one way of doing it !!... but the file name is to be taken from the directory and not hardcoded.
I need to pick file names with extention of today's date... for example ".051201" so how do i pick up these files...?

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#!/bin/ksh
today="$(date +%m%d%y)"

for filename in *.${today}
do
   print - "$filename" | sed 's/^xxx0\([^.]*\).*$/\1/'    # will yield "173"
   # hence (we assume the variable $filename to be there):
   typeset chFileSig="$(print - "$filename" | sed 's/^xxx0\([^.]*\).*$/\1/')"

   mv "$filename" "/path/to/dir/d${chFileSig}"
done