FTp using windows bat file and checking status

[ihatecats]

Hi,
I am trying to write a Windows batch command file to ftp (only upload) some files to a server.

But I also need to check if each upload is successful or not and display that information in a log file (only if failed)

For that I have created a text file and the following BAT file. I am not exactly sure how to check the status (success/fail) of each upload. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Here is what my .txt file and .bat file looks like.

Thanks,



FileTransfer.txt

myuserid
mypassword
cd /my/target/directory
lcd local
lcd uploadfrom
binary
mput *.gif
bye



UploadFile.bat

@ECHO File upload started at %TIME%>ftp1.log

ftp -i -s:FileTransfer.txt myhost>>ftp1.log


@ECHO File upload ended at %TIME%>>ftp1.log

@echo off
if %errorlevel% >= 0 (echo Files upload Failed
) else (echo Files upload Successful)
:EOF

pause

[mikesgroovin]

Well, at some point you are going to have to write within the batch file to cross reference a line of the log file that you are appending to to do "something" if the log file contains certain text like "FAILURE TO UPLOAD" or something like that.

So, you can accomplish that in a couple of different ways. You can incorporate a "find" step within your batch file or a "2 step" process that takes the elements of a text file... in this case, a log and then sets it into a variable and then use a IF THEN ELSE against the variable to do a certain task.

SET /P ERROR_MESSAGE=<SbxBackup_Folder_Create.txt 2>> SbxBackup_Folder_Create.txt

For instance, this is a line in a batch that I did a while ago. I have an error log for a SPECIFIC task in this text file and right before the text file gets deleted, I set the contents of it to the %ERROR_MESSAGE% variable...
from there I could echo it, recall it, dump it into another file, test it against an IF THEN ELSE, whatever I want.

But first things first, you will need to generate some test logs to find out:

1) What the errors are and when you get them
2) The exact verbiage of the errors

These are the key missing elements you need prior to doing anything else.