Using Yesterdays Date as a folder Name

[RF101]

Hello,

I am new to Aspect and I am trying to figure out how to access a folder with yesterdays date as a name. A new folder is ccreated automatically everyday with the format of 20060515.

I saw this thread (thread448-1027713) that shows how to set the date but I do not know how to reference this in the script like below.

waitfor "ftp> "
transmit "cd sDate^M" (This does not work)
waitfor "ftp> "
transmit "mgets^ *.*^M"

TIA, RF101

 

[knob]

Below is a script that gets the previous day's folder:

proc main
integer iDay, iMonth, iYear, iHour, iMin, iSec
long lOneDayBack
string sFolderName

lOneDayBack = $LTIME - 86400
ltimeints lOneDayBack iYear iMonth iDay iHour iMin iSec

strfmt sFolderName "%d%02d%02d" iYear iMonth iDay
endproc

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[RF101]

Thanks, but how would I call sFolderName in the script?

In my code I am changing into the directory

waitfor "ftp> "
transmit "cd sFolderName^M" (This does not work)
waitfor "ftp> "
transmit "mgets^ *.*^M"

Is there some syntax I am missing to call sFolderName?

 

[knob]

Are you using Procomm's FTP client, or are you using FTP in a telnet session?

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[RF101]

I Telnet into 1 box and then I FTP to a second. The folders I need are on the server I FTP into.

 

[knob]

OK, in that case you would use something like this:

strfmt sFolderName "cd %d%02d%02d^M" iYear iMonth iDay
transmit sFolderName

(replace the original strfmt command in my post with the above two lines)

The first line will create the full command line you need to send, while the second line transmits that command line to the FTP session.

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[RF101]

Excellent, that did the trick. Thank you very much