Re: Scripting Terminal for simple FTP
Re: Scripting Terminal for simple FTP
- Subject: Re: Scripting Terminal for simple FTP
- From: Chris Janton <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2003 07:13:54 -0700
On Saturday, April 5, 2003, at 07:48 PM,
email@hidden wrote:
I want an AppleScript to use the terminal to login to the server using
a
specified username/password and download only the latest filexx.txt
file
which right now may be file03.txt, but tomorrow might be file04.txt
I want the script to automatically decide which file to download,
No Terminal required...
set myFile to do shell script "curl --list-only
ftp://user:password@host/ | egrep file[0-9]+.txt | sort | tail -n 1"
set myFileContents to do shell script ("curl
ftp://user:password@host/";
& myFile)
There are only 2 lines in the script...
The first command tells curl to get a listing of files from the host,
search it for the name of the target file, sort the results (just in
case the directory listing isn't in order), and select the last
(highest) line from the listing.
The second command tell curl to go get the file.
8)
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Chris Janton - face at CentosPrime dot COM
Netminder for Opus1.COM
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