Upload files to FTP with "curl"

angel115 · 09-10-2007, 12:26 PM

Hi There,

I want to upload several files on a ftp site, but some of these files already exist on this FTP so I would like to prevent them to be re-uploaded again.

At the moment I'm using curl to do the job, but I overwrite all the files each times, as I couldn't find a way to make curl to check if the file exist, and if so, to skip it.

Current used code:

Code:

curl -T - --disable-epsv -u username:password ftp://Myftpsite:21

Is there any function in curl like "If-Exist-Do-Not-Overwrite"?

Or a way to implement that? (even with an other command I don't mind)

Best regards,
Angel

exvor · 09-12-2007, 12:15 AM

Maybe a script that pulls the current directory structure that is on the FTP server then checks it with the current list of files to be uploaded and does diffrent operations depending.

Sorry there is no code example but im not too familiar with writing scripts or using curl

angel115 · 09-12-2007, 02:21 AM

Yes I was thinking of that, I was just want to make sure that the command didn't have this build in functionality.

So yes, I'll do that thanks for your help.

Angel.

Guttorm · 09-12-2007, 07:48 AM

Hi

Maybe you want to look "lftp"? It's a neat command line based FTP client that has a very useful command called "mirror" that does this kind of jobs. Debian has lftp so you can just apt-get install it.

angel115 · 09-13-2007, 03:05 AM

Hi Guttorm,

That's wonderful, thanks a lot, I didn't know this command before.

I didn't have the time to try yet, but i believe it will do the job.

Thanks again.

Angel.