Simple FTP with a batch script

Feelgood

Hey folks,

I'm trying to put together a batch script though have hit a small issue, if anyone can help me would grately appreciate it.

Right heres the thing, I basically need to get files from an FTP server. The problem is that the files don't have an extension, they have the same name though the extension is a random number that changes everyday. For example, todays file could be batman.1234 and tomorrows could be batman.9876

So I need to ask the user for the file extension for that day, simple enough.

echo Please enter file extension number
set /p extensionnumber=

Now heres where I am having the problem, I am connecting to the ftp server using "ftp -s:config.txt" where config.txt holds my ftp parameters. (The good old fashioned way

Eg. config.txt
Open ftp.myserver
username
password
cd
lcd
bin etc etc...
get batman.

But how do I pass the user variable that I got earlier into this config.txt, so that when I come to my ftp get command it appends the filename with the variable at the end?.

eg. get batman.uservariable

Any ideas?. Or can anyone think of a better way of doing it?. I'm not a programmer though and have very limited programming skills. Cheers in advance

Tom Dunne

Feelgood wrote: »

echo Please enter file extension number
set /p extensionnumber=

Now heres where I am having the problem, I am connecting to the ftp server using "ftp -s:config.txt" where config.txt holds my ftp parameters. (The good old fashioned way

Eg. config.txt
Open ftp.myserver
username
password
cd
lcd
bin etc etc...
get batman.

But how do I pass the user variable that I got earlier into this config.txt, so that when I come to my ftp get command it appends the filename with the variable at the end?.

eg. get batman.uservariable

Any ideas?. Or can anyone think of a better way of doing it?. I'm not a programmer though and have very limited programming skills. Cheers in advance

A quick and dirty way would be to auto-generate the config.txt file each time, substituting the batman.uservariable with batman.%uservariable% The output should be batman.18283 (or what ever). Start off with a TEMPLATE_config.txt which would have the bones of the script:

Open ftp.myserver
username
password
cd
lcd
bin

Then copy this over to config.txt, append batman.%uservariable% to then end of it via something like ECHO "batman.%uservariable%" >> config.txt

You then call the new config.txt in the same way : ftp -s:config.txt

Easy.

MOH

Is there only going to be one file on the server each day (i.e. do the old ones get deleted?).

If so mget batman.* should do it.

[edit]
Or what the Rev said, that's a better way.

Feelgood

Rev. Inglesworth wrote: »

A quick and dirty way would be to auto-generate the config.txt file each time, substituting the batman.uservariable with batman.%uservariable% The output should be batman.18283 (or what ever). Start off with a TEMPLATE_config.txt which would have the bones of the script:

Open ftp.myserver
username
password
cd
lcd
bin

Then copy this over to config.txt, append batman.%uservariable% to then end of it via something like ECHO "batman.%uservariable%" >> config.txt

You then call the new config.txt in the same way : ftp -s:config.txt

Easy.

Cheers for that my man, much appreciated!.