can we ftp a directory

gauravgoel · February 23, 2006, 3:54am

Hi guyz,

Is there any way to ftp a whole directory structure.
I mean is there any way using which I can get the whole directory ftpied including the subdirectories

Thanks and regards,
Gauravv

vino · February 23, 2006, 4:30am

You can tar the whole directory and then ftp. If you dont prefer that you need a different ftp client. Something like ncftp. Ncftp supports recursive directory transfer.

gauravgoel · February 23, 2006, 4:36am

thanks a lot vino.

eugrus · February 23, 2006, 7:30am

What ftp-server are you using?

gauravgoel · February 23, 2006, 7:43am

Hi eugrus,

forgive me for my ignorance about this
can u tell me how to check which ftp-server I am using

Thanks and regards,
Gaurav

shriashishpatil · February 23, 2006, 7:46am

you can use filezilla for ftp purpose. Its a nice s/w and easy to use. You can download it from net.

gauravgoel · February 23, 2006, 7:50am

Hi ashish,

Thanks for your suggestion, but
I want to ftp between two unix machines and not between windows and unix

Regards,
Gaurav

sssow · February 23, 2006, 2:14pm

I prefer to use a webbrowser and you can copy and paste files and directories

url will be something like ftp://username@hostname

I have tried from windows machine to a Unix FTP Server. It should work between unix machines also, if the browser on unix supports that

bhargav · February 23, 2006, 9:18pm

Nice idea. But how do you navigate to different file system from your HOME ??

gauravgoel · February 24, 2006, 1:07am

First of all thanks to all of you

I will restate my question, maybe I was not clear first time.
All of us know that we can automate ftp of files between two unix machines using shell scripting, so my question was can we do something similar for ftping a directory.

Regards,
Gaurav

surjyap · February 24, 2006, 10:57am

yes you can do it. you can ftp directory, but before that you have to tar the file. It is always advisable to zip the file so there will be less chance of loss of data. for doing tar
you can use command
$ tar cvf <directory name.tar> <directory name>
$ gzip <directory name.tar>

After completion of ftp first unzip the file and untar the directory.
$ gunzip <directory name.tar.gz>
$ tar xvf <directory name.tar>

sssow · February 24, 2006, 7:55pm

In the browser we will get windows explorer like view, we can easily navigate and copy and paste files as we do in windows. Try and see. I like this very well and we dont need any software like cuteFTP or FileZilla

Pilgrim · February 25, 2006, 11:44am

I haven't tried it, but may I suggest scp? From the scp man page:

NAME
scp - secure copy (remote file copy program)

        -r      Recursively copy entire directories.

gauravgoel · February 27, 2006, 3:04am

Thanks to all

Pilgrim nothing is there in man pages for "scp" on my machine.
I am using HP-UX.
can you tell me how to get this scp

Regards
Gaurav

Perderabo · February 27, 2006, 10:50am

Please learn to use our search function. If you had read the article on automating ftp jobs in our FAQ section, you would have finf a link to:
HardFeed recursive ftp

sssow · February 27, 2006, 5:19pm

Bhargav
I see your point now. I was always trying ftp as root and was able to navigate fine. I dont know the solution for non-root users

Pilgrim · February 28, 2006, 3:23am

Try this page:

gauravgoel · March 1, 2006, 1:26am

Thans a lot pilgrim for your help

Regards,
Gaurav