Wget & SFTP Examples

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My company needs grab files from 3rd party servers daily and only today’s file. Here are useful snippets of FTP and SFTP.

Wget From FTP

If you need wget download specific file from another server, there is accept list argument -A that helps us filter today’s file.

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today=$(date +"%Y-%m-%d")
wget --user='ROOT' --password='PWD' -r --no-parent -A "File $today*" ftp://ftp.server.com/ -O ./destination.csv

SFTP

For SFTP, once you have public key installed on their server, you can do the following

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today=$(date +"%Y-%m-%d")
sftp name@server.com <<EOF
get *$today* destination.csv // name the file as destination.csv
quit
EOF