Help with an FTP

Ok, I have a unique situation which is out of the norm. Is there a way, when doing an FTP transfer on a Unix box, to have the file name on the other side have a different name from the file you are transfering and also have a date/time stamp on it as well? I have never heard of being able to add a date/time and just had to see if anyone has done this.

Thanks!

jlk

If you create an empty file ahead of time:


you can use the ftp command "append". It will use the name of the existing empty file.

I do not know of anyway to specify the destination filename without spending way too much time writing a roll-your-own sockets app.

I don't know about the date and time, but as far as the name goes if you are using ftp from the console:



works for me



-Steven
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My bad. - Now I see what he wanted. Ignore my post

Well, it may be my bad... we don't know yet. We both hit our jeopardy buzzers at the same time.

I am not familiar with append, but it looks interesting. Does it work "backwards" (appending from client to server)? It appears to want to append a file on the server with the contents of a file on the client.

-Steven
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I have been researching this for about an hour or so ( far longer than really needed) and I haven't found anything really. I am now looking at the commands that FTP supports. If I find anything, I will post here. Thanks for the replies!!!

jlk