get todays files
I have a script that will login to my ftp server and download all the backup files, but I want it to only download the files that were created today, e.g. if I ran the script today I want it to only fetch files created today. I am really not sure about how to do this, but it is quite important to me, so all help is highly appreciated! Andrew -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: get todays files
On Dec 10, 5:55 pm, Steve Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew D wrote: I have a script that will login to my ftp server and download all the backup files, but I want it to only download the files that were created today, e.g. if I ran the script today I want it to only fetch files created today. I am really not sure about how to do this, but it is quite important to me, so all help is highly appreciated! IIRC there's an ftpmirror script in the Tools directory (if you're on Windows - Linux/Unix users have to download the source). I adapted it to several different purposes. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ Thanks Steve, I don't want to sound rude here, but I really want some code to add to my script so that it will only download todays files. Andrew -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: get todays files
On Dec 10, 6:13 pm, Steve Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew D wrote: On Dec 10, 5:55 pm, Steve Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew D wrote: I have a script that will login to my ftp server and download all the backup files, but I want it to only download the files that were created today, e.g. if I ran the script today I want it to only fetch files created today. I am really not sure about how to do this, but it is quite important to me, so all help is highly appreciated! IIRC there's an ftpmirror script in the Tools directory (if you're on Windows - Linux/Unix users have to download the source). I adapted it to several different purposes. Thanks Steve, I don't want to sound rude here, but I really want some code to add to my script so that it will only download todays files. That's OK. Maybe somebody's already got that code ready to go. I don't ... regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ Thank you anyway Steve! Lets hope someone has the code ;) Andrew -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: get todays files
On Dec 10, 6:55 pm, Tim Chase [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a script that will login to my ftp server and download all the backup files, but I want it to only download the files that were created today, e.g. if I ran the script today I want it to only fetch files created today. Use Python's ftp module and send the MDTM command to get back the timestamp of the filename. Insecurely, this would look something like from ftplib import FTP hostname = ftp.mozilla.org conn = FTP(hostname) user = anonymous password = [EMAIL PROTECTED] conn.login(user, password) filename = pub/README results = conn.sendcmd(MDTM %s % filename) code, stamp = results.split(None, 1) assert code == 213, Unexpected result print %s was modified on %s % (filename, stamp) today = '20081210' if stamp[:8] == today: process(filename) else: print ignoring, filename The MDTM command is not part of the core RFC-959, but rather the RFC-3659[1] so you might run across some servers that don't support it. You can read more about the Python ftplib module at [2] which would be where you want to read up on pulling back a listing of the directory of file-names to check. There is a NLST command (I don't have a server handy that supports this command). The LIST command returns pretty/readable information that's not quite so machine-parsing friendly (at least in a cross-FTP-server sort of way). However, that part, I leave as an exercise for the reader along with the complications of the today bit. Oh, SteveH, I checked your FTP-cloning source in my Python dir, and it doesn't look like it does anything regarding file-times in it, so that may have been a red-herring. Unless you've added something since the ver. I've got here. -tkc [1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_FTP_commands [2]http://www.python.org/doc/2.5.2/lib/ftp-objects.html This looks very good and I have tested successfully, but is there a way I can set the today to automatically become todays date in that format? Thanks though, this is what I was looking for! Andrew -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
