Today I was asked if we could automate something where a file would be FTP’d to the clients FTP server.
My answer was sure that’s as easy as pie. Then the finer details came to light.
Problem
So the the details are:
the file changes every day and must have a filename followed by the date stamp at the end of the file name.
For example: file_24042008.txt
that’s easy enough to do, But then I was told that it needed to use the following days date stamp not the current day.
Now it just became a little bit harder
Solution
Being that I am dumping the file to the clients FTP, this makes it a little easier or give me a little bit more control, As the output of the file will just be: file.txt with that then I can script a rename of that file to: file_24042008.txt
So everyday the file.txt would be dumped in a specific directory and then renamed to the file_yesterdays date here.txtÂ
here is the code that was used for that part
(code was taken and modified from a user on Experts Exchange, thanks for that if your reading)
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@echo off
set yyyy=
set $tok=1-3
for /f “tokens=1 delims=.:/-, “ %%u in (‘date /t’) do set $d1=%%u
if “%$d1:~0,1%” GTR “9″ set $tok=2-4
for /f “tokens=%$tok% delims=.:/-, “ %%u in (‘date /t’) do (
for /f “skip=1 tokens=2-4 delims=/-,().” %%x in (‘echo.^|date’) do (
   set %%x=%%u
   set %%y=%%v
   set %%z=%%w
   set $d1=
   set $tok=))
if “%yyyy%”==“” set yyyy=%yy%
if /I %yyyy% LSS 100 set /A yyyy=2000 + 1%yyyy% – 100
set CurDate=%mm%/%dd%/%yyyy%
REM Substract your days here
set /A dd=1%dd% – 100 – 1
set /A mm=1%mm% – 100
:CHKDAY
if /I %dd% GTR 0 goto DONE
set /A mm=%mm% – 1
if /I %mm% GTR 0 goto ADJUSTDAY
set /A mm=12
set /A yyyy=%yyyy% – 1
:ADJUSTDAY
if %mm%==1 goto SET31
if %mm%==2 goto LEAPCHK
if %mm%==3 goto SET31
if %mm%==4 goto SET30
if %mm%==5 goto SET31
if %mm%==6 goto SET30
if %mm%==7 goto SET31
if %mm%==8 goto SET31
if %mm%==9 goto SET30
if %mm%==10 goto SET31
if %mm%==11 goto SET30
REM ** Month 12 falls through
:SET31
set /A dd=31 + %dd%
goto CHKDAY
:SET30
set /A dd=30 + %dd%
goto CHKDAY
:LEAPCHK
set /A tt=%yyyy% %% 4
if not %tt%==0 goto SET28
set /A tt=%yyyy% %% 100
if not %tt%==0 goto SET29
set /A tt=%yyyy% %% 400
if %tt%==0 goto SET29
:SET28
set /A dd=28 + %dd%
goto CHKDAY
:SET29
set /A dd=29 + %dd%
goto CHKDAY
ONE
if /I %mm% LSS 10 set mm=0%mm%
if /I %dd% LSS 10 set dd=0%dd%
rename “C:\Users\bradm\Desktop\ideas.txt” “ideas_%dd%-%mm%-%yyyy%.txt”
This script allows the change of the file name, with this all you have to change is:
rename "C:\Users\bradm\Desktop\ideas.txt" "ideas_%dd%-%mm%-%yyyy%.txt"
The Next Part (FTP script)
Ok here we need to create some thing that dumps this to the FTP, again we are scripting this.
typically with in command line FTP you cant pass a variable, so we have to do all of that before we get to the FTP
So being that we are using a different script (there is no reason why you just cant do this on one script, I am just breaking it down) we then use the same as above but with a few additions
set yyyy=
set $tok=1-3
for /f "tokens=1 delims=.:/-, " %%u in ('date /t') do set $d1=%%u
if "%$d1:~0,1%" GTR "9" set $tok=2-4
for /f "tokens=%$tok% delims=.:/-, " %%u in ('date /t') do (
for /f "skip=1 tokens=2-4 delims=/-,()." %%x in ('echo.^|date') do (
set %%x=%%u
set %%y=%%v
set %%z=%%w
set $d1=
set $tok=))
if "%yyyy%"=="" set yyyy=%yy%
if /I %yyyy% LSS 100 set /A yyyy=2000 + 1%yyyy% - 100
set CurDate=%mm%/%dd%/%yyyy%
REM Substract your days here
set /A dd=1%dd% - 100 - 1
set /A mm=1%mm% - 100
:CHKDAY
if /I %dd% GTR 0 goto DONE
set /A mm=%mm% - 1
if /I %mm% GTR 0 goto ADJUSTDAY
set /A mm=12
set /A yyyy=%yyyy% - 1
:ADJUSTDAY
if %mm%==1 goto SET31
if %mm%==2 goto LEAPCHK
if %mm%==3 goto SET31
if %mm%==4 goto SET30
if %mm%==5 goto SET31
if %mm%==6 goto SET30
if %mm%==7 goto SET31
if %mm%==8 goto SET31
if %mm%==9 goto SET30
if %mm%==10 goto SET31
if %mm%==11 goto SET30
REM ** Month 12 falls through
:SET31
set /A dd=31 + %dd%
goto CHKDAY
:SET30
set /A dd=30 + %dd%
goto CHKDAY
:LEAPCHK
set /A tt=%yyyy% %% 4
if not %tt%==0 goto SET28
set /A tt=%yyyy% %% 100
if not %tt%==0 goto SET29
set /A tt=%yyyy% %% 400
if %tt%==0 goto SET29
:SET28
set /A dd=28 + %dd%
goto CHKDAY
:SET29
set /A dd=29 + %dd%
goto CHKDAY
ONE
if /I %mm% LSS 10 set mm=0%mm%
if /I %dd% LSS 10 set dd=0%dd%
echo YourFTPUserHere>ftp.txt
echo yourFTPpasswordHere>>ftp.txt
echo cd C:\Users\bradm\Desktop\>>ftp.txt
echo put file_%dd%-%mm%-%yyyy%.txt>>ftp.txt
echo bye>>ftp.txt
ftp -i -s:.\ftp.txt ftp.youraddress.com.au
As you can see its using the same code above, toward the end we are simple creating the FTP.txt that will be used to upload the file. All you need to do is change the user, pass path and file.
If you are using these as 2 separate scripts make sure you enter a ‘call’ statement to your FTP script.
