wrote:

>I need to create a ftp script that will do a directory listing of a
>remote folder and create a local file that has that list. I know
>manually get the list, but I don't know how to put it into a local
>file.
>
>does anyone have a sample script to do this?

"Daryl Kanary" <sparty_1984@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> thanks for the reply, but I think I didn't make my question clear.
>
> I am not having any trouble getting an ftp script to work, my issues is I
> need to get a "Directory Listing" from the remote server so I know the
names
> of the files there and I need to get this listing into a file on the local
> machine. manually I would just connect and do a "dir or ls" command. my
> question is how do I pipe that to a file on the local machine?

"Daryl Kanary" <sparty_1984@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I haven't been able to find any documentation to tell me that....
> (apparently I haven't been looking in the right place)...

"Jeff Cochran" <jeff.nospam@zina.com> wrote in message
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> On 11 Oct 2004 11:04:30 -0700, sparty_1984@hotmail.com (Daryl Kanary)
> wrote:
>
> >I need to create a ftp script that will do a directory listing of a
> >remote folder and create a local file that has that list. I know
> >manually get the list, but I don't know how to put it into a local
> >file.
> >
> >does anyone have a sample script to do this?
>
> The command line FTP uses a /s to run a script of the FTP commands.
> Launch that from a BAT file.
>
> Jeff

"Alun Jones [MSFT]" <alunj@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> "Daryl Kanary" <sparty_1984@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:UxQad.16749$Qv5.10303@newssvr33.news.prodigy.com...
> > thanks for the reply, but I think I didn't make my question clear.
> >
> > I am not having any trouble getting an ftp script to work, my issues is
I
> > need to get a "Directory Listing" from the remote server so I know the
> names
> > of the files there and I need to get this listing into a file on the
local
> > machine. manually I would just connect and do a "dir or ls" command.
my
> > question is how do I pipe that to a file on the local machine?
>
> This is really an issue with the FTP client, rather than with the server,
> but I can answer it for you. The "dir" or "ls" commands in the FTP client
> take two arguments, both of which are optional. The first argument is
> interpreted as the directory or file you want to list, and the second is
> interpreted as a file to which you wish to send the output.
>
> So, to list the current directory (whose shorthand name is ".") to the
file
> "fred.txt", you would use the command "dir . fred.txt".
>
> Alun.
> ~~~~
>
>