FTP list to download 1

[aixmurderer]

Hi all

I need to list the files on a remote FTP server, move them to a working directory on the remote server, download them, and finally rename them on the remote server. Quite an ask...

My idea was to read the remote file list into a local file, then loop through the local file and do what's required for each file name in the list.

The problem I have is with writing the remote list of files to a local file (e.g. ls > file.list), the local file is created but is empty. Tried "ls", "dir", "nlist", all with the same result.

What am I doing wrong?

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[PHV]

From my ftp man page:
dir [ remote-directory ] [ local-file ]
Print a listing of the directory contents in the
directory, remote-directory, optionally placing the output
in local-file. If interactive prompting is on, ftp will
prompt the user to verify that the last argument is the
target local file for receiving dir output.

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[aixmurderer]

Thanks mate, should have read the man pages myself instead of trying to figure it out from the ftp help option.

Used nlist in the end, gives only the file names which is all I require.

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