ftp entire directory and all subdirs and files 4

[gatetec]

I need to ftp the entire directory including all subdirs and files.
What is the command line?

thx much

 

[vodkadrinker]

Look at mput and mget, you can use wildcards.

ftp>mput *

 

[KenCunningham]

What have you got so far?

Consider tarring up the directory structure, sending the resulting file and untarring at the far end.

I want to be good, is that not enough?

 

[columb]

Does it have to be ftp? scp is
[ul]
[li]More secure[/li]
[li]Uses compression during transfer reducing network traffic[/li]
[li]Allows for recursive copyiong of directories - whidh is what you want[/li]
[/ul]

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Columb Healy

 

[kundunni]

FTP stands file transfer protocol . By native design it does not support directory tranfer. You can use third party tools like Filezilla for Cute FTP..

As Columb mentioned FTP is not advisable since it not secure. Using scp you transfer directories

 

[gatetec]

That makes sense.

thx much

 

[mrn]

cd /<remote dir>
lcd /<local dir>
bin
hash
prompt
mget *

Should do the trick

Mike

"Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters."

 

[dial8d]

another way of doing it.

find <parent dir> -depth -print | cpio -oav | ssh user@yourhost 'cd <target dir>; cpio -imvud'

 

[khalidaaa]

Yet another way of doing it is by this:

You have to be on the directory of the destination host and you have to set up rsh (or better if you have ssh so you can replace the below rsh command with ssh!)

rsh source_node_name 'cd /sourceDocs; find . -print | backup -iqf -' | restore -xqvpf -

This is the perfect solution for low bandwidth connections!

Regards,
Khalid