Command line and wildcards

NightTrain · Post by **NightTrain** » Mon Feb 02, 2004 3:34 pm

I'm trying to set up a process for my company to download files that have been FTP'd from a mainframe every night. I can get specific files with no problem. I can even get the wildcard to work if I use *.*. I noticed in the helpfile that you use *.jpg as an example. This will not work for me. No permutation of test*.* or t*.jpg or anything beyond *.* will hit a file for download. The secure server is Unix based and perhaps that has something to do with the wildcard probs.

works:

coreftp.exe ftp://mysite/test.txt -s -o -p c:\windows\desktop -site CIO
coreftp.exe ftp://mysite/*.* -s -o -p c:\windows\desktop -site CIO

doesn't work:

coreftp.exe ftp://mysite/*.txt -s -o -p c:\windows\desktop -site CIO
coreftp.exe ftp://mysite/test.* -s -o -p c:\windows\desktop -site CIO
coreftp.exe ftp://mysite/te*.* -s -o -p c:\windows\desktop -site CIO

Is there any way to log the results of an automated download?

NightTrain · Post by **NightTrain** » Mon Feb 02, 2004 5:37 pm

Thanks for the quick reply. I added the -d parameter and it didn't behave any differently. It's just not matching any files on the target box.

NightTrain · Post by **NightTrain** » Mon Feb 02, 2004 6:10 pm

It's my understanding that it's a Unix server running SecureShell and SecureFTP.

NightTrain · Post by **NightTrain** » Mon Feb 02, 2004 8:29 pm

Win98SE
Version 1.3 build 1260

The jeff.txt is the file I've been downloading.

drwxrwxr-x 12 512 508 4096 Oct 29 2003 ./
drwxrwxr-x 12 512 508 4096 Oct 29 2003 ../
drwx------ 6 512 508 4096 Aug 14 2002 .kde/
-rw-r--r-- 1 512 508 24 Aug 14 2002 .bash_logout
-rw-r--r-- 1 512 508 191 Aug 14 2002 .bash_profile
-rw-r--r-- 1 512 508 140 Sep 13 2002 .bashrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 512 508 820 Aug 14 2002 .emacs
-rw-r--r-- 1 512 508 3511 Aug 14 2002 .screenrc
drwxr-xr-x 2 512 505 4096 Aug 26 2002 agency/
drwxr-xr-x 2 512 505 4096 Sep 12 2002 bin/
-rw-r--r-- 1 512 508 704 Aug 19 2002 CCDISK.TXT
-rw-r--r-- 1 512 508 84672 Aug 19 2002 GLDISK.TXT
drwxr-xr-x 5 512 505 4096 Oct 22 2002 H12/
drwxrwsr-x 4 512 509 4096 Jan 15 15:12 MPLUSFBMC/
drwxr-xr-x 5 512 505 4096 Oct 17 2002 H27/
-rw-r--r-- 1 512 505 5563350 Aug 23 2002 ZIPDISK.TXT
-rw-r--r-- 1 512 505 3245 Sep 13 2002 MONPLUS.TXT
drwxrwxr-x 3 522 522 4096 Nov 17 2003 SCSCU/
drwxrwxr-x 5 512 505 4096 Oct 17 2002 H21/
drwxrwsr-- 5 512 517 4096 Dec 8 2003 H73/
drwxrwsr-x 4 512 513 4096 Jan 28 20:23 CITISTREET/
-rw-r--r-- 1 512 508 13756 Sep 29 2003 JEFF.TXT

NightTrain · Post by **NightTrain** » Mon Feb 02, 2004 8:55 pm

JEFF.TXT works
jeff.txt works

JEFF.* works.
jeff.* does NOT work.

Apparently, case sensitivity is only an issue when you use a wildcard

Thanks much for the help!