RE: Testing for a value not sent to a shell script

[John McKee <jmmckee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Never occurred to me to do a wildcard get.  Reason is that I have several
programs that retrieve data from a DEC system, and I have to change the name
from 32 characters to 10.  Just get in a rut.  Thanks for the nudge.

John McKee

Quoting "Porterfield, Sean" <SPorterfield@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> > From: John McKee
>
> > This started out simple.  I want to run an sftp to generate a lit of files
> > on remote server.  Then, use n sftp to get the file, one at a time.
>
> Are you downloading a subset of the files by name?  When I do this, I 
> just "get *" and pull everything.  Then I read through the directory 
> and process all files in it.  I then move the files to a "processed" 
> directory to avoid processing them twice.  Other than that part, it 
> sounds like you're doing very much the same thing I am.
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> Sean Porterfield
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