how to ftp 1000 files without intervention

[apple]

dear HPUX admin,
would really appreciate you can shed some light on this.
i want to transfer 1000 files, mput * but it requires me to enter or say yes. how can i do this without my keyboard intervention.
hope to hear from you. promise of good points.

[whiteknight · Accepted solution]

Almond,

ftp>prompt off (this will disable the prompt)
ftp>mput *

this will avoid keyboard intervention.

Hope this help.

WK
don't forget to assign points

[Sajjad Sahir]

Dear Almond
once u connected with ftp
do prompt 0
this will get inetractive mode off

[Jeeshan]

thats the only answer, you can close this thread.

[Dennis Handly]

You can also tar up the 1000 files and transfer that. Of course you must untar on the other side.

[apple]

that's great, i wanna give you points, but i have few seconds earlier closed the case. thanks a lot. hv a nice day

[Shrikant Lavhate]

You can reopen thread
http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/helptips.do?#41

-=ShRi=-

[apple]

dear gurus,
test1 is a directory. i wanna confirm my step:
1. # tar -cvf test1.tar
Attempt to create archive of no files. Nothing dumped.
2. #ls
test1.tar
when i untar
3. tar -xvf test1.tar
Tar: blocksize = 0; broken pipe?

appreciate your advice on my missing steps. i can tar folder right, not neccessary file? thanks a lot

[Steven Schweda]

> 1. # tar -cvf test1.tar

Perhaps more would happen with something
like:

tar -cvf test1.tar test1

> 2. #ls

Try "ls -l" to see how little you got.

[apple]

great, want to clarify.
#tar -cvf test.tar test
tar: couldn't get uname for uid 65534
tar: couldn't get uname for uid 65534
a test/test 0 blocks
tar: couldn't get uname for uid 65534
a test/1 0 blocks
tar: couldn't get uname for uid 65534
a test/2 0 blocks

why it says couldn't get uname for uid? but test.tar was successfully created. after that i untar, get the original file. why when i tar the file, it gives me couldn't get uname thing? hope to hear from you

[Yogeeraj_1]

hi

This is just a warning.

The file returning an error is in fact included in the TAR, but tar is just warning you that it has no valid owner attached to it.

The uid attached to the file has no corresponding user in the /etc/passwd
file.

This happen when you delete a user without removing files owned by the latter.

To find the files that tar issues this warning about, you could search for files with uid set equal to 65534 (in your example):

ll -R | grep 65534

To get rid of the warnings, either remove the files, or use the chown commmand to give them a valid owner.


hope this helps!

kind regards
yogeeraj

[Yogeeraj_1]

hi again,

below the command to change the ownership of the files:

#chown :

username--any username on the system
groupname---any groupname on the system.
filename---name and path of file


You might as well do a:

#chown -R :


hope this helps too!

kind regards
yogeeraj

[Dennis Handly]

tar: couldn't get uname for uid 65534
>why it says couldn't get uname for uid?

Does UID of 65534 exist?
This is likely -2, or "nobody".

On my systems, 11.23 or 11.11, I have no problems with either -2 or 65534.
Of course one is in /etc/passwd and the other in NIS.