# Can powershell do this?
**URL:** https://forums.powershell.org/t/can-powershell-do-this/255
**Category:** PowerShell Help
**Created:** [December 31, 2011, 6:30pm UTC](https://forums.powershell.org/t/can-powershell-do-this/255 "2011-12-31T18:30:00Z")
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### Author:  [@archives](https://forums.powershell.org/u/archives)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2011, 6:30pm UTC](https://forums.powershell.org/t/can-powershell-do-this/255/1 "2011-12-31T18:30:00Z")
by eyewon at 2012-10-16 10:19:04
> We need to change our mac environment to a Windows server and I need to know if I can do the following tasks automatically with Powershell.
>
> #1 - Check on an external ftp site to see if a file is available
> #2 - When the file is available, I need to download it and relocate it on the same server
> #3 - I need to open a share from another Windows server and copy the file to it
> #4 - I need to wait for the file to be transformed on the share and get the new file when it is transformed (Different filename)
> #5 - Copy to a OSX mac share (samba)
> #5 - Rename the file and place it to another ftp location.
>
> Can this be all automated without user intervention?
>
> If you need more details on the step, I can provide them with no problem.
>
> Thank you for your help everyone.
by DonJ at 2012-10-17 08:29:12
> 1. Not natively. You’d need to script up an FTP check yourself, or use something like /n software’s NetCmdlets, which can talk to FTP.
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> 2. See #1.
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> 3. Sure.
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> 4. I’m not sure what you mean by "transformed." If there’s some action being done to the file, you’d need some way to detect that. You could use a .NET Framework FileSystemWatcher to watch for a new file in that folder, I suppose, provided the file won’t show up until it’s done. If the file is created and then written to over a period of time, you’d likely have to keep checking it until it closes.
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> 5. Sure. Same as a Windows share. Technically CIFS or SMB, not Samba.
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> 5 again. Again, nothing native in PowerShell for FTP.
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> I suspect you could do much of this in PowerShell by using the native ftp.exe, since ftp.exe actually accepts scripts. Check out its docs.
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