Recursive FTP upload tool?

Greg Barniskis nalists at scls.lib.wi.us
Fri Dec 30 07:53:39 PST 2005


Alexander Pohoyda wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I'm looking for a command-line tool to recursively upload all changed
> files/directories to my homepage server via FTP.  Is there anything
> better than wput for this task?

If your server supports it, of course rsync seems much better than 
FTP for this task.

Have you seen this article on automating command line ftp?
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/excerpt/BSDHacks_chap1/index1.html

It recommends ncftp client, but I don't know if it does what you 
want or not.

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