> Winblows??? hahaha most amusing and great advocacy
>
> You could try to get the script to retreive the file from the remote
> site to a local machine and check its presence there instead.
>
The dir command does this, the dropping back to a shell while still in the
ftp session (!) doesn't work with the <<MARK/MARK features at the
beginning and end of the script.
dir from the ftp man page:
dir [remote-directory] [local-file]
Print a listing of the directory contents in the
directory,
remote-directory, and, optionally, placing the output in
local-file. If interactive prompting is on, ftp will
prompt
the user to verify that the last argument is indeed the
tar�
get local file for receiving dir output. If no directory
is
specified, the current working directory on the remote
machine is used. If no local file is specified, or
local-file is -, output comes to the terminal.
I guess I will have to quit the current ftp, then check and start another
one..... even though there are issues with that. (This script is supposed
to take 5 - 10 seconds to complete the execute, it takes 2-3 minutes!!)
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