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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users ftp - any best practices for signalling end of transfer? Post 302591544 by _dev_null on Thursday 19th of January 2012 09:53:44 PM
Old 01-19-2012
Question ftp - any best practices for signalling end of transfer?
Hi,

I'm writing shell scripts to handle incoming and outgoing automated sftp transfers between a local server and various remote servers belonging to different organizations.

I'm wondering if there are any recommended or "best practices" for signalling the end of a ftp file transmission (sending multiple files), such as sending an empty ".done" (e.g. "somefilename.done") or similar file, after all other files are sent. Or maybe sending one empty ".done" file per individual data file.

I've seen the ".done" approach here and elsewhere, and have one client who sends a ".eot" (end of transmission) file. I'm just wondering if there are any informal standards or practices for doing this.

The idea being that you don't want the party receiving files to start processing them until it's certain that all expected files have arrived and are complete.

Cheers.
 

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NAME

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