ftp question

[Ridzuan Zakaria]

Hi All,

Is there any ftp option that is equivalance to "cp -p"?

I would like to keep the file properties unchange.

Thanks.

[A. Clay Stephenson · Accepted solution]

No. Remember that FTP is a cross-platform protocol so many of the concepts have no meaning in other OS's. However, most FTP implementations support the chmod operation so with a combination of FTP's ls, put, get, and chmod -- if ftpd allows all of these commands -- (or local versions of the commands if going the other way) you can generally achieve what you are trying to do. It also depends upon the umask setting that ftpd is running.

[Ridzuan Zakaria]

Thanks.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

There is no direct equivalent method.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Steven Schweda]

As others have said, the true answer is no,
but programs like wget have the ability to
scan an FTP directory listing to get the
date-time for a remote file, and set it/them
after the file has been fetched. Wget also
has an option for file permissions (which it
gets the same way), which can be helpful:

--preserve-permissions preserve remote file permissions.

http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/wget.html

Without knowing your exact requirements, it's
hard to say that wget will satisfy them, but
it may be worth a look.