Re: FTP file naming issue

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I wonder...  doesn't he already know the name of the file, leastways the 
first few characters?  Can't he mget file* and get all of the files that 
have the right beginning characters?  After that its fairly trivial, I 
believe?

James Lampert wrote:
> Tim Gornall wrote:
>   
> > I'm trying to automate a process that retrieves a file via FTP from a vendor
> > that is named using a date/time stamp.  In other words, the file name will
> > dynamically change each time it is created.  Can I rename this file on
> > either end somehow?  If I use GET I must know the file name to begin with.
> > If I use MGET with a wild card, I can get the file, but I can't specify the
> > destination name, so now I have a file in my IFS but I don't know the name.
> > It appears RENAME does not support wildcards, etc.  Is anyone doing
> > something similar?  Thanks, Tim 
> >     
>
> Is there a way you could examine a directory listing on the FTP server?
>
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