Regarding ftp commands

[ajk_2]

Hi all,

I want to copy some files (including some files in subdirectory) from HPUX server to my personal computer. It seems ftp's mget command is not good copying many files in many subdirectories. Any other comands or application can do it faster? Thanks a lot!

Regards
ajk

[Michael Tully]

If they are just text files your could try using:

cat file1 file2 | gzip > foo.gz

then ftp the foo.gz file in binary format.

[ajk_2]

They are just text files. I don't need to zip them. All I concern that I just want to copy those file and under other subdirectories' files to my PC at once. Could you help? Thanks!

ajk

[Animesh Chakraborty]

Hi,
You can use some software which are able to do ftp very efficiently like Exceed etc.

[Michael Tully]

yes you could use exceed. ALthough it's primary function is X based connections, it does have a useful ftp facility which looks very similar to using explorer on windoze.

[Deepak Extross]

Ftp is not capable of sending nested files in one go. You'll have to do a "cd" to the path where the file is before sending it across each time. with an appropriate "lcd" on the local machine.
I'd suggest creating an archive and ftp'ing it across. That way, you get to keep the directory structure and save ftp time as well.

[ajk_2]

Is the Exceed windows based? or unix based?

[ajk_2]

Is the Exceed windows based? or unix based?
and where can I download it? Thanks.

[Kenny Chau]

As what I understand from your questions, you want to ftp some files from different directories. However, mget command may not do this well. So I suggest you to write a text file in your pc:

open
user
bin
cd
mget
cd
mget
bye

Then use the command "ftp -i -n < textfile" to do it automatically.

On the other hand, many software can do drag and drop for ftp. However, it will copy the whole directory to your destination. If you want to get some files from different directories, the above text file will work.

Hope this helps.
Kenny.

ps. If you want to do it automatically like a cron job in your pc, you can get the FTP Voyager Schedular(shareware) to do it for you.

[Sanjay_6]

Hi,

Try ws-ftp or cuteftp. They can do recursive copy and has a windows friendly interface. You can download this and some more softwares / application from http://www.zdnet.com/downloads/

Hope this helps.

Regds

[Michael Tully]

Exceed comes from a company called Hummingbird. Sorry you can't download it and it is not free.

Have a look at these from the porting centre. Perhaps one of them can do the job. There are quite a few to look at.

http://hpux.connect.org.uk

[Animesh Chakraborty]

Hi,
Exceed is wondows based and can be foung at
www.hummingbird.com
http://www.hummingbird.com/collateral/exceed_datasheet2_EN.pdf
To buyemail at : sales@hummingbird.com

Not free :(

[Sanjay_6]

Hi,

Here are some of the ftp programs which are windows based and available for free / shareware download,

http://hotfiles.zdnet.com/cgi-bin/texis/swlib/hotfiles/search.html?link=1&UTcat=internet&UTsubcat=ftp&Usrt=date&Usubp=Internet_FTP

I have tried cuteftp. That is good. Even ws-ftp is good.

Hope this helps.

Regds

[Frank Slootweg]

Your PC, assuming a PC with Microsoft Windows, probably has pax. If so, you can 'pack' the files with pax(1) (or tar(1) or cpio(1)) on HP-UX, FTP (binary mode!) the archive to your PC and unpack the archive with pax(1).

On HP-UX see the pax(1) manual page.

On Microsoft Windows, at least on NT, see Start -> Help -> Contents -> Windows NT Commands -> Windows NT Commands -> P -> pax

[Matt Hearn]

Just a thought; you could completely skip around FTP (it's unsecure anyway, don't know if that's an issue for you like it sometimes is for us) and use scp (secure copy). It works like rcp but uses the secure shell encryptions, and there's free windows software available for it.

http://winscp.vse.cz/

That's a link to the WinSCP homepage; it's a decent GUI software, and it will recursively copy files from one system to another.

(Obviously you have to have ssh installed and running on your remote HP-UX system.)

[Richard Darling]

I have all our M$users here using this free ftp product to get files from L1000. Free, easy to install and ANYBODY can use it.
RD

http://www.smartftp.com

[John Carr_2]

Hi

an alternative method to achieve the same results command rcp

you will need to have a .rhosts file for the login being used on the destination server to allow this to work.

rcp -r source_directory destination_server:/destination_directory

good luck
John.