FTP help

[Guest_imported]

Hi,
Is there any way to ftp all the files under a directory structure (I mean whole directory structure) in one shot?
Thanks

 

[MikeLacey]

There are some ftp based tools that let you do this (wsftp from lanworkplace for instance) but it's not supported by standard ftp.

It is, however, easy to create a tar archive of a directory structure (look at [tt]man tar[/tt] for details), compress that (using the [tt]compress[/tt] command) and transfer that file using ftp. [tt]tar[/tt] and [tt]compress[/tt] are standard unix tools and you shoudl have no trouble [tt]uncompress[/tt]ing and un[tt]tar[/tt]ing the file on the target system.
Mike
michael.j.lacey@ntlworld.com

 

[ElgisRamon]

try something like:
[tt]
get aDirectoryName.tar
[/tt]
or
[tt]
get aDirectoryName.zip
[/tt]
Some FTP servers create a tar o zip file if you give such filespec!

Try

 

[Guest_imported]

Hi,
Thanks.
Mike that's a good idea to create a tar file. But some time we will heve problem with permissions.
Roman, I tried the that option but it is not working.

Thnaks for info.

Satkat.

 

[MikeLacey]

Satkat,

If you create and extract an archive as root then [tt]tar[/tt] will look after the permissions for you -- files will be created with their proper owners and permissions.

Is that what you meant by permissions problems?

Mike
michael.j.lacey@ntlworld.com

 

[jad]

maybe he can't create the tar file in the right directory ...

telnet to the machine ...

move to the parent of the directory you want to tar ...

tar cvf ~/filename.tar directory

cd # moves back to the directory that you own.

compress filename.tar

...

you can then ftp this file ...

 

[MikeLacey]

yep -- good point
Mike
michael.j.lacey@ntlworld.com