FTP Transfer

Sander-Rob · 06-11-2009, 10:25 PM

I have a CentOS machine I'm connected to via SSH. I need to FTP multiple directories and files over to another machine.

When I get to the 'put' command, how do I sent everything within a particular directory, and in turn it's child directories, to the FTP server?

jamescondron · 06-11-2009, 10:28 PM

man page. Though if ssh exists, why not use scp? FTP is notoriously insecure and almost completely outdated.

Sander-Rob · 06-11-2009, 10:33 PM

I'm just transferring files between two machines on the same network.

Can I use SCP to connect to an FTP server? I've only used SCP to connect to another Linux machine. The FTP server I'm trying to connect to is on a Windows machine.

jamescondron · 06-11-2009, 10:34 PM

Oh, okay, fair enough. But still, the FTP man page should be the first place you look for this

Sander-Rob · 06-11-2009, 10:41 PM

I looked through it. When I do the following, I get the sub-directories, but I don't get their subdirectories and/or contents.

Example:

# ftp 192.168.1.2
# mput
# directory/*

It then asks me to confirm sending the contents of directory/, but not /directory/child/ etc..

If I use 'ftp -i' it shouldn't ask me to confirm each file, but I don't see a location within the man file that says anything about recursively copying the contents of a directory. Am I missing something?

chrism01 · 06-12-2009, 12:57 AM

AFAIK, there's no recursive option on FTP. you could try either

1. mput */*

or

2, create an MS equiv of a tar file and put that. If you've got Cygwin on the MS box (or can put it on) that would work for tar.
Else some kind of zip file I think (me no use MS)