[ale] i just don't "get" it yet

[Dow Hurst]

Most times I've used ftp, the current directory where you invoke the
client is the directory where files will be put.  I've never had a
command line unix ftp client that worked differently.  So you could try:

cd /data/homedirectory
ftp remote
cd /path/filelocation
get file
"It will go to your home directory"
quit


Try it.  Let me know.
dow


"ChangingLINKS.com" wrote:
> 
> Okay. My user account has permission to write to /data (I use /data all day
> everyday). I have even tried created a file (using an editor) called
> /data/CLbackup.tgz to try to trick ftp into trasferring the file.
> The commands below are what I entered. You can see the variations on a theme
> to try to get it to work. I am thinking /data is is not a subdirectory of
> anything, moreover, when I omit "/data" to get the file to copy to
> /home/user, it still doesn't work. The issue does not seem to be related to
> /data.  TIA  for your  help.
> 
> ftp> ls
> 227 Entering Passive Mode (209,211,232,3,79,56)
> 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for directory listing.
> total 7892
> -rw-rw-r--   1 834      835        949774 Apr 16 13:03 CLbackup.tgz
> -rw-rw-r--   1 834      835       3070111 Apr 16 13:03 dbbackup.txt
> drwxr-xr-x   7 834      835          1024 Apr 16 13:04 public_html
> 226 Transfer complete.
> ftp> get /home/rk4com/CLbackup.tgz /data
> local: /data remote: /home/rk4com/CLbackup.tgz
> local: /data: No such file or directory
> ftp> get /home/rk4com/CLbackup.tgz tb1200:/data
> local: tb1200:/data remote: /home/rk4com/CLbackup.tgz
> local: tb1200:/data: No such file or directory
> ftp> get /home/rk4com/CLbackup.tgz
> local: ./home/rk4com/CLbackup.tgz remote: /home/rk4com/CLbackup.tgz
> local: ./home/rk4com/CLbackup.tgz: No such file or directory
> ftp> get /home/rk4com/CLbackup.tgz /data
> local: /data remote: /home/rk4com/CLbackup.tgz
> local: /data: No such file or directory
> ftp> get /home/rk4com/CLbackup.tgz /data/
> local: /data/ remote: /home/rk4com/CLbackup.tgz
> local: /data/: No such file or directory
> ftp>
> 
> --
> Wishing you Happiness, Joy and Laughter,
> Drew
> http://www.ChangingLINKS.com
> 
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