Help with get/mget from FTP server with files older than 10 minutes

UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
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Hi! I am new to unix and this forum as well..
Can someone please help me :

I want to "get/mget" files which are older than 10 minutes from a remote FTP server like "ftp.com".
After getting the files to local unix server say "Prod.com" , i need to delete only those files from ftp.com which got copied to local unix server.

The files in the FTP server (ftp.com) will be coming in below format:

FileName FileSize FileType Last Modified

abc.pkg 102,272 PKG File 12/17/2012 2:46:00 PM
xyz.pkg 98,546 PKG File 12/17/2012 1:46:00 PM
mno.pkg 14,656 PKG File 12/17/2012 1:05:00 PM
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Check your find command manual and verify if it supports -mmin option. If yes, then you can use find, ssh & sftp to perform file transfer:-

  1. Create an SFTP batch file using ssh (ssh-key needs to be configured):-
ssh ftp.com "find -mmin +10 | sed 's/\.\///g'" | awk ' { print "get " $0 } ' > sftp_batch.cntrl
  1. Run the SFTP batch file using sftp (ssh-key needs to be configured):-
sftp -b sftp_batch.cntrl ftp.com
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No, sftp is not supported for us :frowning:

I have my code like this:

 cmdINPUT=$tempdir/ftpinput
 rm -f $cmdINPUT
 echo "user $FTPID $FTPPWD " > $cmdINPUT
 echo "pwd "                                    >> $cmdINPUT
 echo "cd xxx"              >> $cmdINPUT
 echo "mget *.pkg"                      >> $cmdINPUT
 echo "cd xxx/Backup "    >> $cmdINPUT
 echo "mput *.pkg"                             >> $cmdINPUT
 echo "cd .. "                                  >> $cmdINPUT
 echo "mdelete *.pkg"                  >> $cmdINPUT
 echo "bye "                                    >> $cmdINPUT
 echo "quit"                                    >> $cmdINPUT
 echo "Connecting to $remotehost"  >> $log 
 ftp -vdni $remotehost < $cmdINPUT >> $downloadlog 2>$downloaderrorlog

how to change it to get/mget only files older than 10 minutes from remote host (ftp.com) and also delete only those files from remote host after copying.

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Please always use code tags when posting any code fragments or data samples. If you are not sure how to use code tags, then please have a look at this forum video tutorial

BTW I don't think there is any way to do this inside FTP. You have to generate the list of files older than 10 minutes outside FTP and use it.

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Yes, thats what i was looking for. If someone can help me with it.