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FTP in a script

I am running a .bat file that calls an ftp server and references the commands using a .txt file. Everything is working well.

My problem is when the built in windows FTP client tries to download a file from the ftp server using the get command, if the file does not exist on the server, it wipes out the file that is locally on my C: drive and leaves me with a blank file.

I must always keep the field headers in this file and as such I must make sure that if there is no file on the server to leave the one locally alone.

How can this be done?

(Is there a way to first look to see if the file exist and only then initiate the download?)

Need help - - - - - - Thanks!
Oct 26 '06 #1
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You could handle this in two steps. Use the windows ftp client to "LS" the files in ftp folder. That execution of the ftp client should have output redirected to a files. Your script can then read the redirected output and decided based on what it sees what should happen with the second invokation of the ftp client, the one that will transfer the file if it is actually there.
Feb 23 '07 #2

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