Hi all, I would like to create a batchfile that basically builds an ftp-script. I have a basic textfile called "ScriptFile.ftp" containing the lines to login to the ftp-server and set directories properly. To that file I want to add (or better: insert) lines to take care of uploading a specific file and then rename the file on the ftpserver after upload succeeded. For the file: "example_01.xml" I would need to have following lines in the script: put example_01.xml rename example_o1.xml example_o1.xml.OK But I have to process an undefined amount of files, so this needs to loop for ALL the files in the specified directory. So when I have example_01.xml and example_02.xml until example_nn.xml I would need a for statement and redirect the results into my file "ScriptFile.ftp". When I use: For /F "tokens=*" %%A in ('Dir /B /A:-D %1') Do ( echo %%~fA >> ScriptFile.ftp ) My "ScriptFile.ftp" would look like: open servername username userpass lcd c:\upload cd /ftplocation example_01.xml example_02.xml example_nn.xml How could I make the file become like this: open servername username userpass lcd c:\upload cd /ftplocation put example_01.xml rename example_01.xml example_01.xml.OK put example_02.xml rename example_01.xml example_02.xml.OK put example_nn.xml rename example_nn.xml example_nn.xml.OK I hope that I'm clear about my request. If you still have questions, please let me know and I will try to respond and hopefully get this solved?! Thanks in advance! Igor.

Hi Igor, Well, for starters, there's a neat litlle utility to prefix a string to every line in a file. So in the case of the lines where you need to put files, since you already figured out how to do the for in a bat, once you generate a file with the names to put, let's say it's putlist.txt, you can: prefix "put " <putlist.txt>newput.txt I put the prefix util here: http://www.golden-triangle.com/PREFIX.COM [349 bytes; ain't real programming wonderful?] I think it'll be easier to do all the puts in a block and all the renames in another block. I'm still thinking about how to generate the rename section. I guess I'm not supposed to ask why you don't copy or rename the files before ftp xfer. HTH M2

This "PREFIX.COM" is a neat util! Thanks for that! The reason for my approach is to be absolutely sure that an upload to the FTP-server can finish BEFORE a process on the other side can 'see' the file. In my example, the file "example_01.xml" will not be recognised by the process, but as sson as the file is renamed into "example_01.xml.ok" the process will start (and this way Im sure that the file is completely uploaded).' I'm still puzzled how to use the "PREFIX.COM" to produce lets say two files: "newput.txt" and "newrename.txt" and then later use these to construct the lines into my ftp-script. I will keep puzzling and meanwhile keep an eye to this post! Later! Igor.

Hi Igor, You can use this to generate a block with the the old and new filenames: @echo off > quit.bat :: This takes a filename as input and puts the orig and one :: with .OK appended into a file. if %1'==' quit echo %1>tmp.### set /p xname=<tmp.### echo %xname% %xname%.OK >> OKblock.txt ::================= Then just prefix your "rename " and you should have a block you can slap into your script. HTH M2

Hi Igor, I must ahve been having a "senior moment." This will work even better: ::==== @echo off > quit.bat :: This takes a filename as input and puts the orig and one :: with .OK appended into a file. if %1'==' quit echo %1>tmp.### set /p xname=<tmp.### echo rename %xname% %xname%.OK >> OKblock.txt ::===== HTH M2 If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.

Thanks for your prompt followup M2Go! Much appreciated!!! I have chosen to use following configuration, which works very well: I have a script called [Customer_Name].ini with contents: open [ftp_servername] Username pass lcd [Drive]:\Live\Customer\[Customer_Name]\export cd //[ftp_directory] !!!!empty line!!! --------- Then, a batchfile will use this file and update with information from the directory list in the 'for' loop: ::This part will take care of creating the ftp-script for each file in the specified directory --------- copy V:\Live\Customer\[Customer_Name]\scripts\[Customer_Name].ini V:\Live\Customer\[Customer_Name]\scripts\Status_Update.ftp /y V: cd\Live\Customer\[Customer_Name]\export For /F "tokens=*" %%A in ('Dir STS*.xml /B /A:-D %1') Do ( echo put %%~fA >> V:\Live\Customer\[Customer_Name]\scripts\Status_Update.ftp echo rename %%A %%A.OK >> V:\Live\Customer\[Customer_Name]\scripts\Status_Update.ftp ) echo quit >> V:\Live\Customer\[Customer_Name]\scripts\Status_Update.ftp

Sorry.... one error in previous post; copy V:\Live\Customer\[Customer_Name]\scripts\[Customer_Name].ini V:\Live\Customer\[Customer_Name]\scripts\Status_Update.ftp /y Should have been: copy V:\Live\Customer\[Customer_Name]\scripts\[Customer_Name].ini V:\Live\Customer\[Customer_Name]\scripts\[Customer_Name].ftp /y