Hi all: First time posting.

I am working on an automated ftp script to download files from many servers (desktops running ftp server). I have my generic code working. As part of the script I need to download each file AND change it's name. The new name must incorporate the creation date stamp of the file.

My script runs two separate ftp sessions (have not figured out how to do it with one session yet). The first session basically tests for the server being online and it retrieves a listing of all available files and stores the listing in a local text file. The problem is the "ls" or "dir" command don't provide a time stamp, only the date. I can get the time via "modtime" but I can't figure out how to get that into my output file. What I really need is a file that looks like this:

filename timestamp
filename timestamp
.
.
.

So, can someone show me the light? Thanks much, Chris.

Do you know what distro the server is? I ask, because according to the manual http://linux.die.net/man/1/ftp the ls cmd should in fact list the equiv of 'ls -l'
However, you do have to specify the name of the remote dir, or it will ls the local dir instead; see that link

Thanks for the reply. I should have given some more detail.

The ftp "servers" are a bunch of Windows XP workstations which generate the files I need to download. I am using the ftp service built into XP. My script will run on a SLES10 server.