Script to extract files information from ftp server

[aiko27]

Hi

Wonder if you could help me with the following please.

I would like to construct a script (in any language whichever it's easiest) which when run, it will log on to a ftp server using a generic account and password, then list the files in a specific folder that begins with the string "abc". The file names along with their creation date are then to be extracted on a csv file (or similar). Can this be easily done?

Many thanks in advance!!

Ken

[Flugeldorph]

Hello,

There is a scripting language available free from NIST (http://expect.nist.gov/) called Expect which is quite easy to learn, that would work well for what you are trying to do, if, on the other hand you already know the file that you want to download, the following would work in VB

   Private Sub GetFCCDataFile()
      Dim CurrentDirectory As String = Application.StartupPath() + "\"
      Dim DestinationDirectory As String = CurrentDirectory + "DataFiles\"
      Dim FileName As String = "l_amat.zip"
      Dim remoteUri As String = "http://wireless.fcc.gov/uls/data/complete/"
      Dim Downloadfile As String = remoteUri + FileName
      Dim myWebClient As New System.Net.WebClient()

      Try
         ' Determine whether the directory already exists.
         If System.IO.Directory.Exists(DestinationDirectory) = True Then
            ' Delete the target to ensure it is not there.
            System.IO.Directory.Delete(DestinationDirectory, True)
         End If
         ' Create the directory.
         System.IO.Directory.CreateDirectory(DestinationDirectory)
         ' Move to data directory
         System.IO.Directory.SetCurrentDirectory(DestinationDirectory)
         ' Download the file
         myWebClient.DownloadFile(Downloadfile, FileName)
         ' Restore original directory
         System.IO.Directory.SetCurrentDirectory(CurrentDirectory)
      Catch ex As Exception
         Console.WriteLine("Unable to download file: {0}", ex.ToString())
      End Try
   End Sub

Larry