UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Pls anybody can tell me, how to transfer multiple files through ftp in unix

turn off the prompt

use mput

mput <file1> <file2> <file3> ...

Thanks, could you tell me about zip utilities in sco unix

Ajay

I want to transfer multiple files with directory structure

I cant understand the above,

is that you want to create the directory if it is not existing
or
transfer all the files of the directory

can u please be more specific ?

I want to transfer a directory let say /xyz , which having multiple files and sub-directories inside it

I think a zip utility can solve the problem to make it to single file like xyz.zip and transfer it to another machine using ftp.

I am using sco unix 5.0.5

madhan can u help me about it

Regards,
Ajay

Use tar to create an archive containing your file/directory structure; e.g. to create an archive called myarchive containing all of the files and directories starting at /home/mydirectory then:

all files in the archive will have absolute paths like /home/mydirectory/1.txt

Code:

tar -cvf myarchive /home/mydirectory

or, all files in the archive will have relative paths like ./mydirectory/1.txt

Code:

cd /home
tar -cvf myarchive ./mydirectory

You can also include a specific list of files in the file myfiles.lst (but note that if you specify a directory then the directory will2be included but not the files it contains, this is different from specifying a directory in the first example)

Code:

tar -cvf myarchive -L myfiles.lst

Use ftp to transfer to the archive to the other machine and then untar it:

Code:

tar -xvf myarchive

This is where the difference between absolute and relative paths becomes important as the restore will extract the files/directories to exsct pathnames if the archive was created with absolute pathnames or relative to your current directory if the archive was created with relative pathnames.

hope that helps

cheers