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FTP Remote file existence check
Name: wariomaster Date: March 27, 2007 at 09:09:51 Pacific OS: UNIX CPU/Ram: Unknown Product: IBM
Comment:
My script connects to a remote server via ftp command. I would like it to check for the existence of a file while there and possibly send back a (return code) value for my script to check and determine next step based on whether or not the file exists.
Name: wollie Date: March 29, 2007 at 02:31:57 Pacific
Reply:
Hi Gina,
you can't check it directly via FTP commands. One approach would be to ftp to the server, make a directory listing and pipe the output to a logfile and analyse that logfile. If you receive a positive match, do a second ftp to delete the file.
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