hi, I am making a batch file which will download two virus definition files from symantec's website and will download both the files but the problem is I don't know how to tell the batch file that download these files only as file names gets changed daily according to date in YYYYMMDD format. you can have a look at the webpage hxxp://definitions.symantec.com/defs/ ya I need to download -x86.exe file and .xdb file daily. Kindly guide me further. thanks K2™ System/Network Engineer

hi K2, Based on your date format, use string manupulation functions to form the filename. Ex: In my machine, c:\holla>echo %date% 13-01-2009 c:\holla>echo %date:~-4% 2009 c:\holla>echo %date:~,2% 13 c:\holla>echo %date:~3,2% 01 c:\holla>ver Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6001] c:\holla> Use the above to form the file name. And then use wget to get the file from hxxp://definitions.symantec.com/defs/........ .... Trust you get the idea. -- Holla.

Didn't we go through this a couple months ago? BTW, this is not a useable link on this site: hxxp://definitions.symantec.com/defs/ Rather than mickey-mouse the date, what you probably need is the latest x86.exe & .xdb. [Why would you want an out of date file?] ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

mechanix i do always need latest updates, i daily needs those files, but daily i always have to download those files and have to update it onto 17 different servers which is very time consuming task so I want to make it totally automated by batch file which will daily download the latest updates files and will apply those downloaded file onto the servers. but I tried the wget and url2file utilities as they are not working at all. K2™ System/Network Engineer

This should get you the latest x86. ========================================= @echo off & setLocal EnableDelayedExpansion > #.ftp echo o ftp.symantec.com >> #.ftp echo anonymous >> #.ftp echo password >> #.ftp echo bin >> #.ftp echo cd AVDEFS >> #.ftp echo cd norton_antivirus >> #.ftp echo ls >> #.ftp echo bye ftp -s:#.ftp > symlist for /f "tokens=* delims= " %%a in ('find /i "x86" ^< symlist ^| sort') do ( set NEWEXE=%%a ) set NEWEXE=!NEWEXE:~0,-1! > #.ftp echo o ftp.symantec.com >> #.ftp echo anonymous >> #.ftp echo password >> #.ftp echo bin >> #.ftp echo cd AVDEFS >> #.ftp echo cd norton_antivirus >> #.ftp echo get !NEWEXE! >> #.ftp echo bye ftp -s:#.ftp ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2