FTP question

[cam9269]

Hi Gurus,

I have this task which needs to do FTP's from HPUX > Windows and HPUX > HPUX servers.

I've found Clay's ftpput.pl and ftpget.pl, all's doing well with these scripts. There's just one requirement which I can't get the scripts to produce - and that is to delete multiple remote files without performing transfers

On an ordinary FTP command it would look like this:
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user $LOGNAME $PASSWD
bin
cd $DIRECTORY
mdele * <<<<--- This bit
bye
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TIA!

[Suraj K Sankari]

Hi,

yes you can used mdelete into your script
It should be mdelete not mdele

Suraj

[TTr]

> It should be mdelete...
All ftp commands can be shortened down to a few characters as long as they can be unique and parsed out from other commnads that begin with the same character(s). In this case the "mdelete" command can be shortened down to "mde" (mdir also starts with "md"). If you type "md" at the ftp prompt you get "ambiguous command error".

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

I suggest you examine the documentation accompanying Perl's Net::FTP module:

http://search.cpan.org/~gbarr/libnet-1.22/Net/FTP.pm

You will find that there is a 'delete' method and 'rmdir' method. The later can be made recursive.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Steven Schweda]

> All ftp commands can be shortened down [...]

You're talking about _which_ FTP client
program? And the questioner is using what?

[TTr]

> You're talking about _which_ FTP client
program? And the questioner is using what?T

The questioner is using "mdele" instead of "mdelete" so I am sure he is using and is aware of the shortened commands.