ftp - How to download files which created today?

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hello experts,

I have written following script to download files which created today.

Unfortunately, it's not working.

test.ksh:

#Defining variables
USR='xxx'
PASSWD='yyyy'
HT='test.test.com'
FILE='S*.pdf'
XFILE=$(echo find . -type f -mtime 0)
ZFILE=$(echo ls -tR|grep 'Jun  8')
DIRNAME='/output_files/2010'

#Connecting to ftp site and downloading the file
ftp -n -i -v $HT <<END_SCRIPT
quote USER $USR
quote PASS $PASSWD
cd $DIRNAME
pwd
mget $ZFILE  
bye
END_SCRIPT
ls -l

I also tried:

mget $XFILE

It transfers all files.

I like to download only those files which created today.

Any suggention/code would be grealy appreciated.

Thanks in advance!!
Dip

2

I am not sure '-mtime 0' will give you what you want. I found some code on the Internet to get today's file and tested it on my machine:

touch -t `date +%m%d0000` testfile
find . -type f -newer testfile

Make sure you test the code to see you are getting the file names in XFILE before you try the 'ftp' stuff.

Thanks.

3

take a look to my suggestion to find files that are not older then 1 day:

find / -type f -mtime -1

hope that help

4

Thanks guys for helping me.

I tried research3's suggetions:

 
find / -type f -mtime -1

Above statement also returns y'days files.

soleil4716:
Could you pl. write me what is 'testfile'? How to test?

 
touch -t `date +%m%d0000` testfile
find . -type f -newer testfile

One thing I like to mention that I am trying to download files from remote FTP server.
One of mine friend said this is only possible with 2 FTP sessions.

Thanks

Dip

5

But from my point of view you don't have any find command in your ftp environment, therefore you have to create a list locally then grep and get your files.

exp.

6

I am not expert in scripting. Could you pl. send me some code to do that?

Thanks
Dip

7

give me only 15 min

8

Sure!! Thanks for your time and help!!

9

maybe not the best way but work:)

#!/bin/bash

hostname="ftp.openbsd.com"
username="anonymous"
password="test@.com"

function LsFiles(){
 ftp -i -v -n $hostname <<end_ftp
 	user $username $password
  	cd pub
  	cd OpenBSD
	cd OpenSSH
	ls -la 
	bye
end_ftp
}

LsFiles | grep "$@"  | awk '{print $NF}' > list_of_files.txt

function getFiles(){
 ftp -i -v -n $hostname <<end_ftp
	user $username $password
	cd pub
	cd OpenBSD
	cd OpenSSH
	get $1
	bye
end_ftp
}

for run in $(cat list_of_files.txt)
do
getFiles $run
done

you have to start the script with the follow command

./ftp.sh "Jul 21"

the script will login to the openbsd server and get files that created on Jun 21th from the OpenSSH directory!

hope that help

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10

'testfile' is just a name. You can give it any name you want. It will be an empty file with a modification date set to midnight.

The second command will show all files that are newer than that.

11

Thanks

---------- Post updated at 03:25 PM ---------- Previous update was at 09:47 AM ----------

research3:

Thanks for your kind help!! The codes works good.

I have a small question, in the following code it gets list of all files.

If I want only *.pdf files, how that can be done?

I tried

 ls -la *.pdf

but it did not work.

function LsFiles(){
 ftp -i -v -n $hostname <<end_ftp
 	user $username $password
  	cd pub
  	cd OpenBSD
	cd OpenSSH
	ls -la 
	bye
end_ftp
12

try this one

ls "*.pdf"

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13 
ls -al *.pdf

is working for me. u can also try

find . -name "*.pdf"

(but this will only check in the currenbt directory)

14

dazdseg, I'm a little bit confused about you post,
you mean that the command find run local but not in the ftp session, ??

15

Thanks research3!!

ls "*.pdf"

worked well.