Programming Forums - DOS batch files question

I'm trying to set up some batch files to retrieve some files from a server according to the date in the file name and I'm wondering if this will work also in my ftp scripts or if I have to learn scripting to be able to do this

I call my script from my batch file like so:

ftp -s:file_retrieve.txt

file_retrieve.txt looks like this now:

open server

username

password

binary

lcd c:\temp

get filea20080411.dat filea20080411.dat_1

get fileb20080411.dat fileb20080411.dat_1

get filec20080411.dat filec20080411.dat_1

bye

and I'm wanting to change the get lines to be:

get file*%date:~-4,4%%date:~4,2%%date:~7,2%.dat file*%date:~-4,4%%date:~4,2%%date:~7,2%.dat_1

also replacing the 3 lines with one with a wild card