From: Peter Bailey <pbailey@...>
Date: 2007-12-19T02:37:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Deleting files with Net/ftp

Peter Bailey wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm having to go to a website every day to pull files for editors at my
> company. Unfortunately, the web site isn't maintained that well--they
> keep old files. I have the power to, and I'd like to, delete any old
> files that aren't stamped with today's date. Can someone help me? I'm
> getting Net::FTPPermError errors when I run this.
> 
> I've modified the real names below to protect the innocent. But, the
> filenames over there look like this:
> 
>     lobbyreg-20071215-160004.xml
> 
> My code:
> ftp = Net::FTP.open('ftpserver.zq.com')
> ftp.login('zna','&n@c0ks')
> ftp.chdir("/data/data/zna")
> t = Time.now
> t = t.strftime("%Y%m%d")
> if Dir.glob("*.xml") then
>   xmlfiles = ftp.list('*.xml')
>   xmlfiles.each do |xmlfile|
>   if xmlfile.to_s.match(t.to_s) then
>    puts "Date matches!"
>    ftp.getbinaryfile(xmlfile.downcase)
>   else
>    puts "Dates don't match"
>   ftp.delete(xmlfile)
> end
> end
> end

Never mind. I figured it out. For some reason, when files are listed 
with ftp, they include not just the filenames, but also the date and the 
other stuff you see when you do a "dir." So, I just had to delete all 
that junk and make sure that I was deleting just the filename, not 
everything.
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