windows - I want to fetch the name of the latest updated folder at particular path of FTP server -

using command able latest updated folder in unix

ls -t1 | head -1 

but how can same in ftp server windows?

i want name of latest updated folder @ particular path of ftp server. 1 please help?

there's no easy way windows shell commands.

you can:

• use ftp.exe execute ls /path c:\local\path\listing.txt save directory listing text file.
• exit ftp.exe.
• parse listing , find latest files. not easy task windows shell commands.

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it way easier powershell script.

you can use ftpwebrequest class. though not have easy way retrieve structured directory listing either. offers listdirectorydetails , getdatetimestamp methods.

see retrieving creation date of file (ftp).

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or use 3rd-party library task.

for example winscp .net assembly can do:

param (     $sessionurl = "ftp://user:mypassword@example.com/",     $remotepath = "/path" )  # load winscp .net assembly add-type -path "winscpnet.dll"  # setup session options $sessionoptions = new-object winscp.sessionoptions $sessionoptions.parseurl($sessionurl)  # connect $session = new-object winscp.session $session.open($sessionoptions)  # list of files in directory $directoryinfo = $session.listdirectory($remotepath)  # select recent file $latest =     $directoryinfo.files |     where-object { -not $_.isdirectory } |     sort-object lastwritetime -descending |     select-object -first 1  # file @ all? if ($latest -eq $null) {     write-host "no file found" } else {     write-host "the latest file $latest" } 

see full example downloading recent file.

(i'm author of winscp)