Shell Programming and Scripting

hi corona668
may be i am wrong but why do you think the FTP part wont work??
actually i am using the similar way for doing FTP to remote servers and it works fine. one drawback is that you will have to pass your password to the ftp in this way. if you do not want to hard code your username and password in the script, try using .netrc file.

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sorry.. function word will not come in front of the function name

Code:

FTP_ZIP()
{
      zip_file=$1
      ftp -n remote_server <<FTP
         quote USER remote_username
         quote PASS remote_password
         prompt noprompt
         put "$zip_file"
         ls -l
         bye
FTP
}

for dir in *
do
        zip -r "$dir.zip" "$dir"
        FTP_ZIP "$dir.zip"
        rm "$dir.zip"
done

Because the quotes may confuse it.

I just noticed when I try to unzip the zip files with windows explorer it says... the compressed zip file is invalid!

with windows winrar it says Unexpected end of archive!

but if I open the zip files with linux centos they are just fine

if I run zip -r name.zip name just from the command line the zip file works fine in windows?

Try using a binary FTP. Add the command binary in the FTP deck something like this:-

Code:

ftp -inv $host <<-EOFTP >$LOGFILE
user userid password
binary
cd $target_dir
prompt
put "$zip_file"
quit
EOFTP

The default if probably ASCII, and that can corrupt a non-ASCII file in transit.



Robin

adding binary did the trick, thanks

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to take this script one step further.. how can I process more than one folder?

so I execute the script in the root directory with all the folders inside
eg.
folder1 has 100 folders inside
folder 2 has 100 folders inside
etc

so the script would create the folders with the same name on the ftp server and copy them in to the same folder?
resulting in a copy of my files but all zipped individually in there own folders.

currently I have to go in to each folder to execute the script.

I tried adding mkdir "$dir" cd "$dir" but its creating seperate folders for each individual zip file rather than just a folder with the same name with all the zip files inside.


thanks

If you don't want to cd into it, don't. zip will still work, that's what the -r is for.

Code:

zip -r filename.zip foldername

it doesnt work I spent hours trying.
for example I have the following folders

Code:

/home/fred/folder1/test1
/home/fred/folder1/test2
/home/fred/folder2/test1
/home/fred/folder2/test2

I want to end up with the following on the ftp server

Code:

/folder1/test1.zip
/folder1/test2.zip
/folder2/test1.zip
/folder2/test2.zip

so I am keeping the folder structure the same on both ftp and home pc but all folders on the ftp will be zipped

thanks