Comments on: FTP- options for receiving files

By: devan

devan — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 11:47:41 +0000

Hi Is this sorted out…Is not let me know, then I’ll add my comments

By: tomliotta

tomliotta — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 02:18:09 +0000

…how to help about renaming those files…

My original comment assumed that the files wouldn’t be renamed on the server. If renaming is done at all, the files should only be renamed on the client after being downloaded.

Tom

By: nickhutcheson1

nickhutcheson1 — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 16:18:40 +0000

That is a possibility. It should not be a problem for them.

By: bigkat

bigkat — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:26:18 +0000

It occurs to me that we all talked about how to help about renaming those files, but not about making sure that just because he CAN rename them, that he SHOULD. If the client is keeping the files there for a reason (auditability, other people need to download them too, etc.), renaming them could cause them problems.

By: nickhutcheson1

nickhutcheson1 — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 22:16:14 +0000

250 Rename successful.

Here is the short of it.
mget 20120405*.csv
read the log file, grab the filenames that were downloaded.
rebuild a script file to reconnect to their server and rename each file downloaded.
Kick off the mapping programs.

thanks everyone.

By: charliebrowne

charliebrowne — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 13:08:08 +0000

We do a 3 step process
1. retrieve a DIR
2.Read the DIR to determine what files to puul
3. Go back and rename the files that we pulled.

By: nickhutcheson1

nickhutcheson1 — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 21:55:44 +0000

When I mget 20120405*.csv, I get:

Path already exists: /home/tms/20120405-103602_LoadMaster_040512103326.csv
Specify REPLACE as a subcommand option.

How much of the pathname/filename is checked on the IFS? The whole name is unique but the first 19 characters are the same as existing files on the IFS.

By: nickhutcheson1

nickhutcheson1 — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 21:51:36 +0000

Well, the rename is not exactly right.
The server said RNFR not correct. My believe is that it does not like the ‘*’. It seems like the tofile (RNTO) would need to be the whole name of the file ‘ 20120405etc_and_so_on.prx’. I haven’t found any examples on the rename command.
Interactively, I typed rename and hit enter. The server asked for the fromfile name, then the tofile name. It still did not like the ’20120405*.csv’ as the from file name. Maybe rename just will not accept generics.
This will keep me from bringing in all files in the folder each day. I would still love to rename as I pull them (just to prove that I can).

BigKat, I did have a pgm to update the script for the put operation. I copied/changed for the get operation. thx.

By: tomliotta

tomliotta — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 20:43:47 +0000

Here is what I came up with. …

If only read authority exists, your two-part FTP solution was pretty much what came to mind for me.

Tom

By: nickhutcheson1

nickhutcheson1 — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 20:16:02 +0000

CharlieBrown,
How do you know the file name to rename inside the ftp session?
mget 20120406*.csv
rename 20120406*.csv 20120406*.PRX <<<

Kinda a combination of both suggestions.
Nick