ftp

[Indrajit Bhagat]

I am on Hfxel3 server and doing ftp ca08nimprd server, it is asking for user name and passwd, I provid the user name and passwd and logged in , from ca08nimprd server in /export/application directory one directory 7.3 is there which I have to copy in hfxel3:/var.

I am getting following error.
ftp> get 7.3
200 PORT command successful.
550 7.3: not a plain file.
ftp> mget 7.3


Please put any idea how it can be done

[Anshumali]

Do a tar on it and then FTP it back.
Its a directory...not a plain file....

[Srikanth Arunachalam]

Hi Indrajit,

You either locally create a directory called 7.3 and while ftp'ing goto the directory 7.3 using "cd 7.3" and get all files using "mget *".

Alternatively, you can make use of secured copy.

scp -p -r * @ca08nimprd server:

give the password of user on ca08nimprd.

Thanks,
Srikanth

[Shrikant Lavhate]

Hi,

You can change current directory to 7.3 and then try

ftp> mget *

It will trabsfer all files within current folder that is 7.3 in this case.

[Anshumali]

I doubt if the mget can get you the directory structure below it. It didn't work for me for depth=2

[Shrikant Lavhate]

yes, Ansh correct. But Indrajit didnt mentioned he has any subdirectory structure. Thats why I posted most simple general way.

[Anshumali]

hmm...:)

Well, Indrajit, You can download xftp from http://hpux.connect.org.uk.
cute_ftp, WS_FTP also supports copying files recursively.

PS: Plz assign points if you found it useful.

Cheers!
Anshu