Cron Job Download New Version of File

Graham Ferguson

• February 17, 2015 05:07

Hello, I need some help on how to download a file using a cron job. I need to download a file from an ftp address on a separate server, get the file and put it in a particular directory on the server. I also only want to grab the file if the version on the FTP server is newer than the version on my server. I am currently able to pull the file into the required directory but cannot get it to only do this if the file is newer, the command line I am using is:
wget ftp://ftpaddress/data/item_import_prod_features.txt -O /serveraddress/item_import_prod_features.txt
Could someone tell me how I can do that please?

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  cPanelMichael

  • February 19, 2015 15:50

  Hello :) You could use cURL as documented here: [url=http://curl.haxx.se/docs/manual.html]cURL - Manual Search for the term "remote file is newer" in your browser on the above page to see which commands are available. Thank you.

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