I am trying to write a bash script to update our work website using data from our mysql server.

I want to send a command to delete a folder and all the files and folders in it recursively. I pretty much want to do rm $DIRECTORY -fr but through ftp.

Can anyone help?

Check out lftp. It is a command line ftp client that can be scripted (check out the -f option)

If you know Perl you can use the Net::FTP module to script ftp sessions

I gave lftp a try. It will let me remove files recursively but leaves the folders. This is what I am tryig to achieve.

A script creates a little directory tree with several html pages and images in them.

There is a folder on our webspace put aside for hosting these files and folders.

I want to ftp into the remote folder. Delete everything in it, including folders and their contents.

Copy ALL the files and folders from a specific folder on my computer to the remote folder.

Unfortunately I can't find a command to remove all files and folders throught ftp and I can't find a way to transfers ALL files and folders recursively.

Can you help?