[CLUE-Tech] FTP scripts to poll directory for a file?

[Angelo Bertolli]

Well how frequently do you want to poll?

wget -b -t 0 --waitretry=20 ftp://something/something/file

Will poll every 20 seconds


Jeff Cann wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Anyone have an FTP script that will poll a directory for a given file.  For 
>example, a process on a remote machine puts a file into a directory.  Another 
>machine (via FTP) will poll a directory for the expected file.  Once the file 
>is available, the FTP script gets it and removes it.
>
>Searches for 'FTP poll script' yield polls (as in do you favor George Bush), 
>not polling (as in check for the file every 30 seconds).
>
>Mirror scripts are not useful in this case - the file is used to transfer 
>process state across two machines.
>
>I appreciate any links or script examples.
>
>Jeff
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