How to FTP entire directories?

[Kong Kian Chay]

If you are in X-Windows e.g login via CDE, how about using: xftp
(it comes with both our HP-UX 11.0 and 10.20). It works just like Windows WS-FTP.

If you are NOT in X-Windows e.g using dump terminal, you can only "tar" the subdir and then "ftp" the tar file.

[KapilRaj]

tar | rsh node1 tar xvf .,...

I have posted this some where else hence not typing it again ....

Kaps

[Karthik S S]

It is funny that Joshua gives more points for responses with more lines rather than seeing the content of the response.

No points for this please ...

-Karthik S S

[Bruno Ganino]

Go here and read, there are also software free download.

http://unix.about.com/cs/appsftp/

Look XFTP, it is useful ???
Regards

Bruno

[Bill Hassell]

Just a note about ftp. The standard for FTP is RFC 959 (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc959.html) and there is no recursion defined into lower directories. If you look at all the 'smart' ftp programs, they are simply designed internally to discover directories and traverse them as multiple ftp commands. So whether it is on a PC or Unix or a mainframe, transferring whole directory structures requires an automated ftp program.

[Joshua Goi]

Hi all,

Thanks for the help rendered. I think the best way for me so far is to tar the directory and then ftp them. Thanks again everybody :)