topic recursive ftp in Operating System - HP-UX

recursive ftp

Singaram — Tue, 04 Nov 2003 09:10:10 GMT

I would like to ftp multiple files with entire tree strucutre with out creating the directories on the other end.

Is it possible?

Thanks
Singaram

Re: recursive ftp

Brian Bergstrand — Tue, 04 Nov 2003 09:21:04 GMT

I think the following clients can handle your request:

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Networking/FTP/ncftp-3.1.4/

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Networking/FTP/ftpcopy-0.3.5/

The only way to do this with std. ftp is to tar the directory on the client, and then txfr the tarball to the server.

HTH.

Re: recursive ftp

Elmar P. Kolkman — Tue, 04 Nov 2003 09:22:36 GMT

I like wget for things like that. Even works for http...

Re: recursive ftp

Tor-Arne Nostdal — Wed, 05 Nov 2003 06:15:24 GMT

Standard ftp do not support this.

You can retrieve multiple files with mget, but not recursive gets through directory structures.

You can either install a program that do support this (as proposed above, wget is nice and easy) or you can write a script that do this for you.

/Tor-Arne

Re: recursive ftp

Mark Ellzey — Wed, 05 Nov 2003 09:23:55 GMT

Singaram,

This may be stating the obvious, but it may be more efficient to tar up the directory structure you want before doing the ftp. It certainly would be easier.

Regards,
Mark