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You would have to get a complete list of files, then compare them to what you have to downoad anything you don't already have, or check the file dates and compare it to the date of your last download.
#Batch file to find files by date download
If you only want to download files that have been added since the last time, that gets even more complex. When you say autodetect it sounds like you just want to get new files. Once you have a complete list of folders, you can build a script to actually download the files. If the server doesn't support doing a recursive listing, you would then have to create a script for each top level folder, then log in to get a list of the contents of each folder, log out, create a new script to check the next level, and repeat until each folder has been found. Depending on the server, you may be able to get just a list of folders. If you don't know the folder names, you would have to create a script to log in, get a list of all files and folders and log out. The NcFTP suite or Wget can also be used if you are wanting to download an entire directory structure every time.ĭoing it from batch would require specifying each source and destination folder.
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There are several free and paid versions to do that. If you need to copy an entire folder structure, you'd be better off using an FTP client for that. If the filename starts with the date, you can also download all files that start with today's (or yesterday's) date.Įdit the first 6 Set statements with the correct info to get one file. If the file name includes the date, you can check for that as well. If this remote folder will have all of the previous files, you can get a list of files then download only those you don't have, but this gets much more complicated. If you don't know the name, you can download all files with a csv extension. The Remote folder path should be relative to the folder you are in when you log onto the ftp site.
#Batch file to find files by date Pc
If /i "%cutoffDate%" GTR "%yy%/%mm%/%dd%" dir %1įOR /F "TOKENS=1" %%F IN ('DIR %1 /S^|FIND /i "file(s)"') DO (SET TOTAL=%%F)įor /f "tokens=%tok% delims=.:/-, " %%a in ('echo %~1') do (įor /f "skip=1 tokens=2-4 delims=/-,()." %%x in ('echo.1 FTP Server Name (FTP Site name, either the name or IP addressĤ Local Folder, where on your PC you want to store the fileĥ Remote Folder, where the file is on the FTP ServerĦ Filename, the name of the file to retrieve REM This is where I get the totals for each directory, but I can seem to add them up If not exist "%srcDir%" echo Directory %srcDir% does not exist.&goto :EOFįor /f "delims=" %%a in ('dir /b /a-d /S %dirMask%') do call :PROCESS "%%a" %%~ta This has only effect if you use it with the /o:d option: dir /t:a /o:d will sort the files according to ther lastaccessed date, but will output the creation date for all. The /T switch only tells on which date field to sort the output on. "E:\test\group1\cust2\09-1 8-07\file2 off The dir command seems to always output the creation date of files.
The output from the script below looks like this: Here is what I have so far (this example is for the "daily" report):
#Batch file to find files by date how to
I have logic that can determine the date already and I can get a listing of the number of files per directory, but I am stumped on how to get the subtotals and totals I am looking for. I need a weekly report that would tell me that the total number of files created for the week was 10, and detail the number of files per customer. I need a daily report that would tell me that a total of 6 new files were created this day, 2 for cust1 and 4 for cust 2 The script will be scheduled to run after hours using windows scheduler. I am trying to create a batch script that will provide some rudimentary reporting on the number of files that are placed in directories on a daily basis, weekly and monthly basis.