Linux command line FTP

Peter B

Anyone know how to copy via FTP on linux command line multiple directories and not just multiple files.

At present I am using the 'mput' command but I don't think this works for directories and their contents.

Thanks

SwampThing

You'll have to cd into each directory and do and mput for the files in each directory.

You could write a wee shell script to do it -

ftp to server; cd to top directory; do a 'list' command out to a file; use this list file to control a 'for loop' which loops thru each direcroty in the list and does the mput command for each directory.

If you need a hand, let me know

Peter B

Thanks for the info.
Wouldn't know where to start though. What language would you write it in? Would you need a recursive function or something similar to copy sub-folders and sub-sub-folders?

Anywhere on the web I could find an already completed script?

Orion

Write a command line script. FTP is OS-independent - the commands are the same no matter what OS you are using. What SwampThing suggested is the best/(only) way to do it from the command line.

Peter B

Any help with a command line script would be greatly appreciated.


Need some sort of loop where after connection in root directory...

function LS()
ls command in local server

****loop for each result
{
if (directory)
{
mkdir directory_name;
cd directory_name;
run function LS();
}
else ***not a directory
{
ftp file to current directory position;
}
}
****end loop


end connection


Is this a similar structure?

lynchie

Install ncftp on the machine and do a get -R <directory> to recursively copy directories.

noticed you mentioned command line.. if u are doing it in a script ncftpget is the command line version of it too..

Khannie

lynchie ftw. You lot with your complicated scripts and recursion malarky. :P

Peter B

Well the problem is I am copying files from an old college account to my webspace. My webspace is not supposed to have ssh access even though I can access the command line when I connect through command line from my old college account using 'ftp ftp.myaccount.com'.

Will it be possible to install these programs on my college account or will I have to contact the administrator?

How will I know is ncftpget is installed or not?

Khannie

That's not a shell command line you're at...it's an ftp command line.

What you want to do at your college login is:

which ncftp (will tell you where it is)

and

ncftp yourdomain.ie

will connect you.