Hyrum K. Wright wrote: > I'm trying to write a promotion script for my website that blows away > old content and uploads new content. I would like to be able to do that > through a non-interactive ftp script. The only problem is that ftp > won't delete a directory if it is empty, and I'm having difficulty > finding a way to recurse through a directory. > > I'm tempted to investigate using kermit's ftp functions, but I would > like to know if anybody has any better/alternate ideas for replacing > entire directory trees on a remote machine over ftp. (Better yet, if > there was a way to simply sync the content, that would be great, too.)
FWIW, I found a solution using kermit. It turns out that kermit has some nifty switches for use with ftp to sync trees. I can basically do a `ftp mput /recursive /update *` and that syncs the remote tree with the local tree. There are definitely better solutions than this one, but it works for what I need to use it for. Thanks for the other suggestions. -Hyrum -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
