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Old 11-17-2015
FTP mget will only grab files not folders

Hey All,

first post Smilie

So I am writting a script to pull down files from an ftp that will be called from a bat file on windows. This seems pretty straight forward, and grabs all of the "files" in the cd location, but I am running into some permission issue that will not allow me to grab folders. When going through FileZilla ftp client I am able to transfer the folder over no problem, so I am not sure of the source of this permission mismatch.

The .bat runs
Code:
FTP -v -i -s:scrptfile.ftp.txt

and scrptfile.ftp.txt is:
Code:
open example.com
username
password
lcd D:\PulledFromFTP
cd  \Send2PulledFromFTP
binary
mget "*.*"
disconnect
bye


Folder contents of cd:
TestDirectory.... (Folder)
-> InternalTestPacket.... (File)
TestPacket.... (File)
TestPacketEmpty... (File)


***Script only brings over the two files: TestPacket and TestPacketEmpty
and says "Permission denied" when trying to copy over "TestDirectory"


Any idea?

---------- Post updated at 11:48 AM ---------- Previous update was at 11:40 AM ----------

I tried it a handful of times again, looked in my folder, and it moved the TestDirectory Folder over?!?!

--On the command line it says--
200 Command okay.
Error opening local file TestDirectory
>TestDirectory:Unknown error number


..
..
..
then tried again and got 550 Permission denied

Last edited by vbe; 11-17-2015 at 12:43 PM.. Reason: code tags
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Old 11-17-2015
What unix are you on? Is the ftp module the one that came with your OS, or is it an add-on?
 
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