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Download from FTP into a dated location

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  1. require 'net/ftp'
  2. require 'fileutils'
  3. include FileUtils
  4.  
  5. #creates dir
  6. cd( "/Users/user/Folder/" )
  7.  
  8. dirc = Time.now.strftime("%Y%B%d")
  9. Dir.mkdir( dirc , 0700 )
  10.  
  11. cd( "/Users/user/Folder/" + dirc)
  12.  
  13. ftp = Net::FTP.new('ftp.example.com')
  14. # run the script like
  15. # ruby ftp.rb username password
  16.   ftp.login(user=ARGV[0], ARGV[1])
  17.   files = ftp.chdir('/OUTGOING')
  18.   files = ftp.nlst('*')
  19.   puts "File list obtained... #{files}"
  20.   files.each do |fname|
  21.         puts "Downloading file #{fname}"
  22.         ftp.getbinaryfile(fname, fname)
  23.         # uncomment the next two lines if you want to delete the files after download
  24.         #puts "Deleting file #{fname}"
  25.         #ftp.delete(fname)
  26.         end
  27.   ftp.close

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