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FTP Remote file existence check

Original Message

Name: wariomaster
Date: March 27, 2007 at 09:09:51 Pacific
Subject: FTP Remote file existence check
OS: UNIX
CPU/Ram: Unknown
Model/Manufacturer: 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.
Thank you.
Gina Santiago

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Response Number 1

Name: wollie
Date: March 29, 2007 at 02:31:57 Pacific
Subject: FTP Remote file existence check

Reply: (edit)

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.
cheers
Wollie

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