Showing posts with label bash. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bash. Show all posts

Saturday, September 10, 2011

Download a file from FTP in single command in Bash

I was just looking to download a file in bash from a FTP Server.

The following will work:

wget ftp://<username>:<password>@<ftp-server-url>/<file-name>

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Get the previous date in month-dd-yyyy formation in unix

Another nifty command in Bash to do so in the required format of month-dd-yyyy

date -d 'yesterday' +%B-%d-%G

Other Formats are mentioned at http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?date