curl-users
Re: ftp upload batch
From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 16:26:01 +0100 (MET)
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 16:26:01 +0100 (MET)
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Maurice Geerits wrote:
> I would like to use curl for a scheduled batch-upload process of multiple
> files from different directories. I haven't find out yet how to realise
> that with curl. Is it possible with curl, because wildcards don't seem to
> work.
It doesn't support multiple files that way. If I were to do this, I'd write a
shell script that does the job in a way similar to:
#!/bin/sh
for file * dir2/*; do
curl -T $file ftp://uploadsite.com/directory/$file
done
... of course it would have to be adjusted to your particular case.
> Regular ftp-clients are no option because they will be rejected by the
> firewall.
So why won't curl?
-- Daniel Stenberg -- curl project maintainer -- http://curl.haxx.se/Received on 2001-01-17