Re: OT - Unix Script to get file name and size from remote server

Hi,

Never tried it but feeling creative today

How about rsh to the remote machine to start a script that does the long listing and ftp's back to your machine

Jack

"Nancy McCormick" <nmccormick_at_sbti.com>@fatcity.com on 01-03-2002 16:08:40

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This may be a little off topic so I apologize in advance. But I have seen some good Unix scripting help come across lately so I thought I would go ahead and send this.

I am trying to setup a Unix script that will logon to a remote server, get the name and size of all the files in a remote directory and write the results to a local directory. I need to do this to ensure that all the source files for loading our data warehouse have been received and are complete. The list of files to be received changes nightly and I don't have
the ability to add a record to the files that would provide an "end of file marker".

I have tested ftp using "ls" but it only allows a short list of file names, not the long listing with file sizes. I have also tried nlist, size and dir
from ftp but those commands don't allow printing the results to the local server.

I have tried rsh and rlogin but these commands just sit there with no response. I have to use an ip address, not the hostname, so I don't know if
this is the problem or not. I have the SA looking into this for me.

I could probably setup a cron job on the remote server to do the long listing of the directory and then ftp the results to my local server, but then this would be outside the control of my load process. I would prefer to do everything from the local server if possible.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Nancy

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