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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Recursive FTP -- here at last. Post 302206926 by diggitydanc on Wednesday 18th of June 2008 05:18:53 PM
Old 06-18-2008
Directory Recursing

I ran across this script and am hoping what I'm encountering can be easily overcome because this will be invaluable in a server migration I'm working on. I'm able to connect to my ftp server and it logs in. I'm using

Code:
ksh HardFeed -drfv <server> <user> httpdocs

to initiate the script. I get reasonable output for everything in my main directory, then it begins on the sub directories. My first subdirectory is BeTheBoss and it has a subdirectory of images, and HardFeed seems to get through those fine. The 2nd subdirectory is where I run into trouble. I get the following output:

Code:
rm: cannot remove `/tmp/HardFeed.tp.5660.3': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove `/tmp/HardFeed.ok.5660.3': No such file or directory
httpdocs/BeTheBoss/Binder is a remote directory that already exists
FATAL ERROR: timed out waiting for:
             BeTheBoss-AK66.html

and the script aborts. My directory tree looks something like this:

Code:
/httpdocs/BeTheBoss/images
/httpdocs/Binder

From the looks of it it's using Binder as a subdirectory of BeTheBoss, but I'm not quite sure why. I'm going to try to dig through the script and solve it myself, but I don't know if I have quite enough shell scripting background to manage it.f

Thanks in advance if you beat me to the answer; if I find the fix I'll post back to this forum. Smilie

--Dan
 

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SIMPLEFTP(1)						    InterNetNews Documentation						      SIMPLEFTP(1)

NAME
simpleftp - Rudimentary FTP client SYNOPSIS
simpleftp url [...] DESCRIPTION
simpleftp is a Perl script that provides basic support for fetching files with FTP in a batch oriented fashion. It takes one or more FTP URLs on the command line. The file(s) will be retrieved from the remote server and placed in the current directory with the same basename as on the remote; e.g., <ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/CONFIG/active.gz> is stored as active.gz in the current directory. The script properly understands usernames, passwords and ports specified as follows: ftp://user:password@host:port/path/file BUGS
simpleftp is an extremely poor substitute for more complete programs like the freely available wget or ncftp utilities. It was written only to provide elementary support in INN for non-interactive fetching of the files in <ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/pgpcontrol/> or <ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/CONFIG/> without requiring administrators to install yet another package. Its shortcomings as a general purpose program are too numerous to mention, but one that stands out is that downloaded files by simpleftp override existing files with the same name in the local directory. HISTORY
Tossed off by David C Lawrence <tale@isc.org> for InterNetNews. Rewritten to use "Net::FTP" by Julien Elie. $Id: simpleftp.pod 8357 2009-02-27 17:56:00Z iulius $ SEE ALSO
actsync(8). INN 2.5.2 2009-05-21 SIMPLEFTP(1)
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