Automated Ftp download of file with a name that changes

[Crotinger]

Hello,

Please forgive me lack of knowledge as a stumble through a very quick transition from Windows to Linux.

I am trying to create a script to do the following..
Login to a ftp and download a with the following naming convention xmtvMMDDYY.xml.gz
on a daily basis followed by extracting that file. which I can do easy enough with a static filename. but the variable filename is throwing me off.

I was planning on doing a mget with wildcard to just grab the entire directory but this found to not be as clean as I had hoped. Mainly due to the admins of the ftp keeping multiple days of the above mentioned file on the site.

any advice or pointers on preforming these tasks would be greatly appreciated.
basically the only command I am really stuck on would be the get function.
Thanks

[JohnGraham]

Login to a ftp and download a with the following naming convention xmtvMMDDYY.xml.gz

You can use the date program with a format of "+%m%d%y" to make the dated part of the filename like so:

FILE="xmtv`date '+%m%d%y'`.xml.gz"

[Crotinger]

You can use the date program with a format of "+%m%d%y" to make the dated part of the filename like so:

FILE="xmtv`date '+%m%d%y'`.xml.gz"

Works Perfectly Thanks a bunch for the quick reply.