06-29-2011
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FTP does not work for me as it does not allow renaming of files.
Relative to the server which initiates the ftp, there is no ftp "rename" command for local files but there is ftp "rename" for remote files (subject to directory permissions). Note that the command is actually "rename" not "mv".
It is conventional to ftp files under a temporary name then rename them after a successful transfer.
Assuming you will be initating the the ftp from the master computer you could rename the target file just before renaming the file you transferred successfully under a temporary name.
You can ftp to "localhost" if it is important to use ftp to rename local files but most scripters would just use shell commands.
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simpleftp
SIMPLEFTP(1) General Commands Manual SIMPLEFTP(1)
NAME
simpleftp - rudimentary ftp client
SYNOPSIS
simpleftp ftp://... [ ... ]
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; i.e., ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/CONFIG/active.gz is stored as active.gz in the current directory.
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/usenet/CONFIG/ without requir-
ing 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 simpleftp does not understand the complete syntax of URLs, only the hostname and pathname parts -- it will not under-
stand username, password, port or parameter strings.
HISTORY
Tossed off by David C Lawrence <tale@isc.org> for InterNetNews.
SEE ALSO
actsync(8).
SIMPLEFTP(1)