[ale] Question about ftp'ing files

[Chuck Payne]

Can't use rsync, I love to. I am going from Linux to Windows, no CIFS
either. It sucks.  Let me look at ftp -i, I am on CentOS and it seem
that version of ftp is limited.

Thanks,

Chuck

On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 10:54 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> I would use rsync for this.
>
> At the least, loop through the FILE=  to build a list. What's happening is
> touch3 overwrites touch2 which overwrites touch1.
>
> for myfile in $(ls -rt <path>/<file_pattern>); do FILE="${FILE} ${myfile}";
> done
> do ftp and add -i flag so multiple files can be pushed up at once without
> prompting when using mput instead of put.
>
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 10:37 PM, Chuck Payne <terrorpup at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Guys,
>>
>> I have a question, I have a very simple ftp script
>>
>> -----------------Script Begins----------------------------
>>
>> #!/bin/bash
>> # To find the latest files and upload them to process server
>>
>> FILE=$(ls -rt /chroot/home/fl/fl_sdirc | awk 'END{ print $NF }')
>> ftp -n 192.168.0.8 <<+
>> user user password
>> binary
>> put $FILE
>> quit
>>
>> ------------------Script Ends---------------------------------------
>>
>> But, I think my script is limited and might not have a way to check if
>> files have been uploaded and might not get all the
>>
>> This line seems to only return one file
>>
>> ls -rt /chroot/home/fl/fl_sdirc | awk 'END{ print $NF }'
>>
>> I did this as a test, I ran the following command
>>
>> touch touch1
>> touch touch2
>> touch touch3
>>
>> but only returns touch3, not touch1, touch2 where only seconds part.
>> If that the case, my script will miss uploading files. Is there a
>> better way of doing this? I know there is. just I'm bit brain dead
>> trying think of a good way. I could set up a log and move files, but
>> that will break my KISS rule, or do I need that to make it work.
>>
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