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How to read a file on ftp which name is changing each week

jan
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What would be the best way of reading a file on an ftp site which name keeps changing every week. The beginning of the file name always stays the same. 

 

 

Is it possible to start a shell script from FME to firs download the data set?

 

 

 

 

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takashi
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  • May 20, 2013
Hi Jan,

 

 

How about using a wild card (*)? ftp://.../same_part*.ext

 

 

Takashi
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  • May 21, 2013
Thank you Takashi but the wildcard does not work as the ftp definition in the reader is a url. 
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  • October 17, 2016

This might help...

https://knowledge.safe.com/questions/35179/use-pythoncaller-to-get-list-of-files-in-directory.html?childToView=35262#comment-35262

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