Hi, I have several quesionts about the cmd for windows, (I do realize this is a linux forum).
I am trying to create a bat file that automatically fetches file off ftp server and loads onto a device that I order it to.
But the folder on the remote ftp server has hundreds of files in it (backups that my machine uploads regularly). I am trying to fetch the latest file. I think this can either be known from the datetime of the file and the name that I gave it:
The names are yymmdd_script.tgz, but I am not sure how I can get the latest one instead of them all.
I am about to start the code
Thanks
Ted

There should be a variety of ways to do it, and it can potentially depend on what FTP client you are using. But you should be able to find an FTP client that allows the transfer of a single file with a command such as get. As long as the time at which you retrieve the back up file is in sync with the time the process runs that creates the backup, you should at least be able to put together a BAT file from up to three pieces. You could put any commands that need to be executed before the get command in one file, and any commands that need to be executed after the get command in another file. Finally you could dynamically create the get command text into a third file. Then just concatenate the three files to form the final BAT file. The overall process of creating the final BAT file could potentially be in another BAT file, or at the very least a script from within something like Cygwin.

If that doesn't help you, then perhaps you could give us the details of how you are trying to go about it, and what you view as the difficulties in doing it.

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