My original FTP script was pulling every file with an extension of *.txt - And now, I want to modify the script to pull just one specific file *Myfile20060605AABB.txt

However, it's not working and doesn't display any errors. Attached is the script for you experts to see what I was trying to do. By the way, within the script I also displayed on how I deal with the file permission from the Windows environment.

As you can see, I am a newbie trying to write a Linux script.

Please help!!

Thank you in advance.

Jorge

#!/bin/sh
HOST='10.0.0.1'
USER='ftpprocess'
PASSWD='ftp-ftp'
DATE=`date +%m%d`
##FILE='*txt'
##FILE1='*TXT'
FILE=FILE='Myfile*2006'$DATE*
log=/tmp/xtrans.log
test=/tmp/getfile.test
cd /ftpin/ffi
dat=`date`
echo $dat >> $log


ftp -n -i $HOST >> $log 2>> $log <<END_fgSCRIPT
quote USER $USER
quote PASS $PASSWD
cd ..
asci
cd ABC_FTP
cd IN

mget $FILE 2>>$log
mdelete $FILE
quit
END_fgSCRIPT
cd /ftpin/ffi
ls *.txt > $test 2>>/tmp/log
numline=`cat $test|wc -l`

if [ "$numline" -gt 0 ]; then
echo "Following files have been pulled from ftp server">>$log
cat $test>>$log


cp /ftpin/ffi/*txt /home/user/ftp_1/IN/ 2>> $log
exec < $test
while read line
do
chmod 666 /user/ftp_1/IN/$line 2>>$log
chown ftp-user:busi /home/user/ftp_1/IN/$line 2>>$log
done

echo "Rename files;" >> $log

/home/admin/bin/ren 's/\.txt$/.old/'>>$log 2>> $log
cd /ftpin/ffi
ftp -n -i $HOST >> $log 2>> $log <<END_fgSCRIPT
quote USER $USER
quote PASS $PASSWD
cd ..
cd ABC_FTP
cd IN
mput *.old

quit
END_fgSCRIPT
rm -f *.old
fi

ftp -n -i $HOST >> $log 2>> $log <<END_fgSCRIPT
quote USER $USER
quote PASS $PASSWD
cd ..
cd ABC_FTP
cd IN

mget $FILE1 2>>$log
mdelete $FILE1
quit
END_fgSCRIPT
cd /ftpin/ffi
ls *.TXT > $test 2>>/tmp/log
numline=`cat $test|wc -l`

if [ "$numline" -gt 0 ]; then
echo " Following files have been pulled from ftp server">>$log
cat getfile.test>>$log


cp /ftpin/fsi/*TXT /home/user/ftp_1/IN/ 2>> $log
exec < $test
while read line
do
chmod 666 /home/user/FTP_1/IN/$line 2>>$log
chown ftp_user:busi /home/user/FTP_1/IN/$line 2>>$log
done
echo "Rename files;" >> $log

/home/admin/bin/ren 's/\.TXT$/.old/'>> $log 2>> $log
cd /ftpin/ffi
ftp -n -i $HOST >> $log 2>> $log <<END_fgSCRIPT
quote USER $USER
quote PASS $PASSWD
cd ..
cd ABC_FTP
cd IN

mput *.old

quit
END_fgSCRIPT
rm -f *.old
fi


exit 0

I haven't taken the time to go through your script yet, but is it vital that the script use standard ftp? If not, I would recommend grabbing a copy of ncftp. The command line options will make your life a lot easier.

FILE=FILE='Myfile*2006'$DATE*
this way it cant work
u are trying to fetch or put
'File=Myfile20060504xy.mp3'

why not use .netrc?
man netrc

you specify login details and it automates for you.
make sure you chmod 600 .netrc first.

you can have macros to do commands too,
something like this:
so if you
ftp blah.com it will log on and do the init macro