Hello:

What would be some of your suggestion if the objective is to log on to an ftp server count the number files ..... mget * the files and bring them to the local directory and count the number of files transferred to the local directory and make sure they

Originally I thought that by using the `ls |wc -l` substiution and placing to a variable and calling that variable during the ftp session would do it but I get an unrecognizable command error. Then I thought that if I did a Filecount(){
ls | wc -l
}

and then declaring the Filecount function within the ftp session would do it but it did not work.

Does any one have any suggestions or has had this experience in the past.


#!/usr/bin/sh


#####Login Variables and ip access

HOST=XXXXXXX
ID=XXXXXX
PSW=XXXXXX

#####Communication varibles for ftp logs

COMDIR=/history/comm_logs/ezlnk_ftp

#####Date Variable

DTTM=`date +%Y%m%d-%H%M`

#####
DROP_COUNT=`ls | wc -l`
PKUP_COUNT=`ls | wc -l`

###want to compare the vairables PKUP_COUNT against DROP_COUNT and if they match continue with the execution of the scrip

ftp -inv <<EOF > $COMDIR/ezlnk_out.$DTTM
open $HOST
user $ID $PSW
prompt
binary
ls
bye
EOF

If you want to get the count of files in the remote directory, you can do something like this :

Hi thank you for the quick reply ....looks awsome! Can you explain to me your train of thought? for each statement/variable.

The list of remote files is witten in a local file. The number of lines of this result file is the remote files count.

Remote_count_file=tmp/ftp_ls.$$
Name of the local file where the list of remote files will be written ($$ rpresent the pid of the process).

rm -f $Remote_count_file
Delete the result file if already exists (variable name error in the original post)

ls . $Remote_count_file
List the files in the remote directory and writes the result in the local file $Remote_count_file (I hope that this syntax is not specific to my AIX system). If the remote directory is empty, the result file is not created.

if [ -f $Remote_count_file ]
Test if the result file exists

then Remote_count=`wc -l <$Remote_count_file | awk '{print $1}'`
The result file exists and contains the list of remote files. The number of lines is the remote file count (the '<' before the file name in the wc command may be omited)

else Remote_count=0
The result file doesn't exist, the remote directory is empty (or ftp error, not checked...)

Yeepee!!!! your syntax works excellent!!!! HuGe HelP!!

(I hope that this syntax is not specific to my AIX system)


Regards,
Milenko