Hi

I am very new to this shell scripting.I have a requirment where i need do check a directory on a remote m/c and copy files that are newly generated.I need to check the timestamp of the file and find out whther the file is newly generated or not.

I would really appreciate any help on this regard..

Hi karthik_se
try this

REMOTE_SERV="server"
REMOTE_PATH="/u1/tmp"
LOCAL_PATH="/u1/dbforum"
LOG_FILE="ttt.log"
> $LOCAL_PATH/$LOG_FILE
ftp $REMOTE_SERV <<-! 2>&1 | tee -i -a $LOCAL_PATH/$LOG_FILE > /dev/null 2>&1
cd $REMOTE_PATH
lcd $LOCAL_PATH
dir
bye
!

# in your local-LOG_FILE you get the file informations from your
# remote-directory like this

#-rw-r--r-- 1 informix 40 Feb 2 18:52 sh6020
#-rw-r--r-- 1 root 1518 Jan 30 21:29 tps15744
#-rw-r--r-- 1 root 1518 Jan 31 21:14 tps723
#-rw-r--r-- 1 root 1518 Jan 23 23:25 tps858

# Now check the Log_FILE for timestamps from today
# like this

TODAY=`date '+%d.%m.%Y'`

COPY=`cat $LOCAL_PATH/$LOG_FILE | awk -v T=$TODAY ' BEGIN { FS=" "}
{
day=substr( T, 1, 2 )
month=substr( T, 4 ,2 )
year=substr( T, 7 ,4 )
if ( month == 1 )
{
month_1 = "Jan"
}
if ( month == 2 )
{
month_1 = "Feb"
}
# and so on until Dezember

if ( $7 != year )
{
if ( $5 == month_1 )
{
if ( $6 == day )
{
print $8
}
}
}
}'`

# all files will be copied with timestamp from today

for i in $COPY
do
ftp $REMOTE_SERV <<-! 2>&1 | tee -i -a $LOCAL_PATH/$LOG_FILE > /dev/null 2>&1
cd $REMOTE_PATH
lcd $LOCAL_PATH
get $i
bye
!
done