Automate FTP sessions with Windows

You’d like to upload some files from a PC running Windows via FTP to another server every now and then? It’s as easy as:

  • saving the appropriate FTP commands in a text file
  • using Windows’ built-in ftp command along with the text file
  • adding a task to the at scheduler.

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Deleting files older than a week under Windows

If you’re running a Windows server and want to delete files that are older than, say, a week then Visual Basic comes to the rescue. Once you’ve got the script running you’d like Windows to start it every day so you don’t have to do this manually: at will be your friend here.

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