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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Pipe text in to find command Post 302593864 by methyl on Sunday 29th of January 2012 03:50:23 PM

01-29-2012

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Sorry, the script posted contains too many scripting errors to follow exactly what it was intended to do. I get the gist of finding out what files are present on the remote server, then transferring them.

What might be useful is to post sample output from a ftp session showing the exact format of:

Code:

ls
# And just in case these commands work on your system and give a more useful format when in a ftp session:
ls -1
dir
dir /b

Further to Corona688 the MSDOS "find" command is more like a very basic unix "grep" command. There the similarity ends.

There is a little-used syntax to the "ftp" command "dir" which outputs the results of the "dir" to a local file. This should help us isolate the output from "dir" from the general "ftp" session output.

Are you able to post a representative command-prompt session which works - along with a bit of anotation about what you are trying to achieve along with sample input data and expected output. Some sample data showing "with spaces" and "without spaces" would help. We are particularly interested in how you dealt with filenames containing space characters in the command-prompt session.

As usual it always helps to post what Operating Systems and versions are involved in a file transfer problem.

Footnote: We have to get rid of those "for" statements if any of the filenames contain space characters. I continue to wonder where this syntax comes from as I have never seen it in a book or training material.

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rpload(1)						      General Commands Manual							 rpload(1)

NAME

       rpload - alpine remote data utility

SYNTAX

       rpload [ -f ] [ -s trimSize ] -t Type -l Local_file -r Remote_folder

DESCRIPTION

       Rpload  may  be	used  to  convert  local  Alpine  configuration files or address books into remote configurations or address books.  It is
       intended to be used by system administrators.  Regular users should normally use the facilities provided within Alpine.

       Local_file will usually be a user's alpine configuration file, and Remote_folder is the IMAP folder which will be used (with  the  help	of
       Alpine's  -p,  -P,  and	-x commands or PINECONF, PINERC, and PINERCEX environment variables) as the user's remote configuration folder.  A
       copy of Local_file will be placed in the folder with the correct header lines to satisfy Alpine.

       -f		   Force the load even if the remote folder is in the wrong format.  This will delete the contents of the folder so use it
			   carefully.

       -s trimSize	   If  the  number  of	messages in the remote folder is more than one plus trimsize (one is for the header message), then
			   messages 2, 3, and so on will be deleted until there are only one plus trimsize messages left.  If this option  is  not
			   set no trimming will be done.

       -t Type		   The possible Types are pinerc, abook, and sig.  (Sig is mostly obsolete. Literal signatures contained within the remote
			   pinerc should be used instead.)

       -l Local_file	   The file on this system that is to be copied.

       -r Remote_folder    A remote folder name to be copied to.  See the Alpine documentation for the syntax of a remote folder name.	One  exam-
			   ple is
			   {my.imap.server}remote_pinerc.

DIAGNOSTICS

       Exit status is zero if all goes well, -1 otherwise.

SEE ALSO

       Rpdump(1).

       Copyright 1989-2007 by the University of Washington.

       $Date: 2005/01/14 20:40:14 $

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