FTP files from different directory from remote server to one directory in local

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi All,
I want to search for .log files from folders and sub folders in remote server and FTP them to one particular folder in the local machine. I dont want to copy the entire directory tree structure, just have to take all the .log files from all the folders by doing a recursive search from the remote directories using FTP and place it to one particular folder in the local

Please suggest.

Thanks,
dass

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There is no "recursive search" feature of ftp.

This is a pre-emptive solution without properly stating the problem or anything about the computers.

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the FTP script i have is

ftp -ni 2>$RUNNUM.log <<! 
       open $REMOTESERVER
       user $USERID $TPPWD
       cd $REMOTEDIR
       mget *.xml
       quit
!

with the above I can get the files from one directory, but my directory structure is as below

REMOTEDIR= /home/sales
with in sales I can have many subfolders like
/home/sales/Jan
/home/sales/feb
/home/sales/march
and even those folders can have subfolders like /home/sales/Jan/abc

I want to do a recursive search in the remote directory and look for .xml files from all the subfolders inside sales folder and ftp those xml files to my local machine.

4

Using just ftp for this task would be the very last resort. Navigating an unknown directory tree with ftp is really difficult.

Do you have better software like Remote Shell , Remote Copy etc. .?
Do you have administrative access to both computers?

The whole process would better driven from the remote computer end.