I try to ftp files every hour automatically (crontab). The file name is changing by time and date. Does anyone know a solution to ftp files where the name changes? I tried the following, after having established a ftp connection:
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put $file, ...
does not work...Any ideas?

I imagine that you are using a .netrc that contains the FTP commands. What we did was write a script that generates the .netrc on the fly, the runs it.

That way, your script can use the $file variable to output the proper filename to the .netrc file.

Thanks for your help; I eventually found a "not so elegant" solution to my problem:
once the ftp connection is established, I simply added into my script:
put file*.*

so that the changing file extension (depends on time and date) is always taken into account.