How can I delete a file in my ftp server?

[chenxu]

I download a file from my ftp server and I wanna delete it after I succesfully download it, because I will possibley upload a new file with the same name and, maybe, the same content as the file existed in the server.

Any advice would be appreciated

[Bert]

How do you do it now? Let me put it another way...if you need to upload a file, or delete a file from the server, what method do you currently use?

[chenxu]

How do you do it now? Let me put it another way...if you need to upload a file, or delete a file from the server, what method do you currently use?

I've no idea of deleting a file from the server or uploading a file to the server. I read the help file carefully, but I do not find any usful info.

I'm considering to add the timestamp in the file which happens to be a text file. After download the file, I should process the timestamp to decide whether this file is newer than the one downloaded earlier. But this is not the best solution, there must be a better one, but what it is?

Edited August 13, 2007 by chenxu

[martin]

I've no idea of deleting a file from the server or uploading a file to the server. I read the help file carefully, but I do not find any usful info.

I'm considering to add the timestamp in the file which happens to be a text file. After download the file, I should process the timestamp to decide whether this file is newer than the one downloaded earlier. But this is not the best solution, there must be a better one, but what it is?

Have a look at Wouter's ftp UDF in the sticky section of Example scripts. It has a FTPDelFile function.

Edited August 13, 2007 by martin

[lordofthestrings]

in a dosbox it's pretty easy to FTP ..

(in case you don't want to read and learn the entire UDF..)

ftp<enter>
open localhost 21
user administrator 12345678
lcd c:\
cd files
delete file1.txt
bye

you can also create this as a textfile and type c:\>ftp -s:ftpscript.txt to have it go automatic..

Edited August 14, 2007 by lordofthestrings

[chenxu]

I happened to hear AutoIt a few days ago, and in these days, I spent almost my spare time reading its help file. UDF has not been read. Today, I started to read the "IE Management" of UDF, I found the UDF is wouderful, I do not think that we can create macros like this before. I will read all this UDFs in the next days.

[chenxu]

I do not find any function about ftp in UDF? Is there any extent extended UDFs?

[chenxu]

in a dosbox it's pretty easy to FTP ..

(in case you don't want to read and learn the entire UDF..)

ftp<enter>
open localhost 21
user administrator 12345678
lcd c:\
cd files
delete file1.txt
bye

you can also create this as a textfile and type c:\>ftp -s:ftpscript.txt to have it go automatic..

I connect to internet by a http proxy which I can not access to from a dosbox. I firstly use AutoIt to set the FtpSetProxy function to set the proxy and download the file