I've got my own webserver running ftp and I'm wondering how best to upload to it via the command line. I had tried curl but I get this problem...

%curl -T test.png -u userass -O ftp://obelix.ca/public_html/xgrid
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- 0:00:05 --:--:-- 0
curl: (25) Failed FTP upload: Can't open that file: Is a directory

I run ls and see that yes in fact test.png is there and it is NOT a directory. All I want to do is upload a png file to my ftp server but curl keeps doing funny things. Is there a better way to do this?

I tried the ftp command but I like being able to do everything all in one command and not have to go into prompts for entering things.

hi,

you could just use straightforward ftp - open your console and type 'ftp'; you should then see the ftp command prompt. type 'help' for a list of options. to connect to your remote machine, type 'open <remote site name>' and you should be able to navigate around...

it's probably also worth checking the ftp man page.

yes but I need to run it all as one command because it's part of a script. Using ftp doesn't work because it has that dumb console you have to use in order to type everything in.