[KellyLeia]

I need to know how to create a batch file that will post to an ftp by looking for a file with a specified date. It's a two step process. First, a batch file is run to encrypt, and the output file is KML_06082004.pgp. Then another batch file needs to be run to post a file to a client's ftp site. Currently, what I'm doing is going into the second batch file that posts the file and changing the date every week to the current date in the mmddyyyy format. I've been looking online for a way to run it so I don't have to change the date every week, but all I keep finding is how to encrypt a file with the date as part of the name, and I already know how to do this. This is the code that encrypts the file

Note...Actual names have been changed to protect the innocent.
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echo off
set year=%date:~10,4%
set month=%date:~4,2%
set day=%date:~7,2%
set newdate=%month%%day%%year%
echo %newdate%

Pause

C:
cd gnupg
gpg -o C:\KML_%newdate%.pgp -r xxxxxxxx -e C:\KML.txt
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This is the file that sends it out...(minus the username and password of course)
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open ftp.myftp.com
lcd C:\
binary
put KML_06082004.pgp
quit
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Anyone got any solutions or a link that can help me out? It's not like this is killling me doing this, it's just annoying having to change this every week.

[MustBNuts]

Okay, just a thought here (and let me warn you, my DOS is a bit rusty...):

Add a couple of lines to your batch file that instruct it to move the file to a \sent subdirectory when the process is complete (or use copy then delete the file from the original subdirectory). The only file that will ever be in the root directory will be the current one to be sent, so use a wildcard to pick it out and send it (I also believe in putting this stuff in a subdirectory, not directly into root C) :

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open ftp.myftp.com
lcd C:\
binary
put KML_*.pgp
move c:\KML_*.pgp c:\ftpSent\*.*
quit
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Let me know if this works,

MBN

[KellyLeia]

On the batch file, i changed put KML_06082004.pgp to put KML_*.pgp. It worked fine as far as I can tell. I knew that you could use the * as the wildcard, but I didn't think you could do it in the middle of a file name. Thanks for the help!

Kelly