ftp script using cat

[tradntele]

Need help troubleshooting why my ftp script doesn't work. Previous threads suggested a script like the following to ftp a file that has a filename with yesterday's date.

First, this 11:59pm script creates a file with the appropriate date...

date +%m-%d-20%y > /sasuser/leexjx4/prod/yday.txt

Then the following 12:01am script references yday.txt to ftp the appropriate file...

ftp << EndFTP
open jan
ascii
prompt
get filename_`cat yday.txt`
close
EndFTP

The problem is I get a &quot;cannot open yday.txt&quot; error. Any ideas? I seem to recall while testing, that it did in fact work at some point. Now in a crontab, it results in the error.

 

[tradntele]

Disregard... figured it out... the script was basically looking in the wrong directory for the cat file. Who would've thought you had to look in the right place!