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Brian Webster
Asked: 2010-02-21 15:10:09 +0800 CST

Windows Server 2008 - Calling FTP from .CMD - Pass a parameter to an FTP file?

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I am calling the following from a .cmd file:

 ftp -d -s:D:\backup\web-daily.txt

The web-daily.txt file is an ftp input file with similar contents to this:

open <server>
<login>
<password>
put d:\backup\web-daily.7z web-daily.7z
quit

I need to be able to pass the current date to the ftp input file. Is this doable without having to execute a program that actually modifies web-daily.txt? This is because web-daily.7z is actually web-daily_%date:~10,4%%date:~4,2%%date:~7,2%.7z (or web-daily_yyyy_MM_dd.7z).

I'd like to pass this date in as a parameter if possible.

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3 Answers

  1. Here's how to effectively pass a date parameter to an FTP input file on windows.

    @echo off
setlocal

@echo off > %0.ftp
>> %0.ftp echo open <server>
>> %0.ftp echo <user>
>> %0.ftp echo <pw>
>> %0.ftp echo put d:\backup\web-daily_%date:~10,4%_%date:~4,2%_%date:~7,2%.7z web-daily_%date:~10,4%_%date:~4,2%_%date:~7,2%.7z
>> %0.ftp echo quit

ftp -s:%0.ftp

    This will send web-daily_yyyy_mm_dd.7z to the ftp server.

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  2. Best Answer

    I agree, this will do it, in North American format. There may be a way to make it universal, but that may not be important if the server won't change.

    @echo off
setlocal

@echo off > %0.ftp
>> %0.ftp echo open <server>
>> %0.ftp echo <user>
>> %0.ftp echo <pw>
>> %0.ftp echo put d:\backup\web-daily_%date:~10,4%_%date:~4,2%_%date:~7,2%.7z web-daily_%date:~10,4%_%date:~4,2%_%date:~7,2%.7z
>> %0.ftp echo quit

ftp -s:%0.ftp
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  3. Rem: This worked for me

@echo off
setlocal

@echo off > %0.ftp
>> %0.ftp echo open **server**
>> %0.ftp echo **userid**
>> %0.ftp echo **password**
>> %0.ftp hash
>> %0.ftp asc
>> %0.ftp echo lcd c:\program\data\ (your local path)
>> %0.ftp echo cd fam/user/tcs/in/hold (your ftp path)
>> %0.ftp echo get 01000%date:~10,4%%date:~4,2%%date:~7,2%01.txt
>> %0.ftp echo quit

ftp -s:%0.ftp
del %0.ftp

rem below line gets a file with today's date from the ftp server
01000%date:~10,4%%date:~4,2%%date:~7,2%01.txt
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