Hello friends!
I just ran into a problem, and am a bit confused how to correct this.
I am reading the output of an FTP list command, and using SORT to capture
and format the FTP GET commands I need. This process is working fine for
the most part, and it produces the correct commands most of the time.
However, I just noticed that the file list is different in one of my
folders, causing me to lose the first character of the filename.
I had been using this:
PARSE=(%02=(ABSPOS=65,ENDBEFR=C'.',FIXLEN=8),
%03=(FIXLEN=3)),
but now I find that one of my folders starts the file name in pos 64, and
not 65.
Is there a way to not use ABSPOS=65, but instead to say I want to start
following a space after Col 60? In Rexx, I could say to use the 10th word,
but I don't want to change the SORT to Rexx now, as this input is doing a
number of different things.
Here is a sample of the file listing (with ` replacing blanks to keep
spacing intact):
EZA2284I`-rw-r--r--```1`ftpuser``ftpusers```42160`Sep``2``2016`TESTFL1.BIN
EZA2284I`-rw-r--r--```1`ftpuser``ftpusers``442160`Nov`10`15:26`TEST2.TXT
My output from the Sort is going to say
get /thisdirectory/TESTFL1.BIN //DD:LIST
get /thisdirectory/TEST2.TXT //DD:LIST
Thanks for your help with this troublesome question!
--
Thank you and best regards,
*Billy Ashton*
----------------------------------------------------------------------
For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,
send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
