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  • Unfortunately that doesn't work. 'Requested action not taken. File unavailable (file not found or no access).' I have access to the file as I can explicitly name the file to be renamed and it works. The wildcard is what I believe is not working. Commented Mar 30, 2017 at 20:34
  • "The rename command does not support wildcards." - stackoverflow.com/questions/31180849/… "For example, to retrieve files named myfile1, myfile2, and myfile3 from another computer, at the FTP prompt, enter: mget myfile?" - kb.iu.edu/d/aceu It appears that you can use a ? as a single character wildcard, try that. Commented Mar 30, 2017 at 22:15
  • Thanks for the suggestion, though, I'm trying to move files within the same ftp server. For example, I downloaded file yyy from the server but now I need to move it to an archive directory. I need a way to script the move without knowing the file names. Commented Mar 31, 2017 at 13:18