You might find something helpful using "-Q" option in the cURL manual.

Shun-Li

"Edward Peschko" <esp5_at_pge.com> wrote in message
news:20050131230724.GB13202_at_venus...
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 11:58:05PM +0100, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> > On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Edward Peschko wrote:
> >
> > >Believe it or not, I've been to that page, checked out all the
> > >implementations, and there isn't a single one that satisfies my
> > >requirements
> >
> > Wow!
>
> yeah, it sucks. People assume that things are covered, and something
> this simple falls through the cracks. My best bet with the other
> clients would be to port ftp-ssl from NetBSD to solaris, which is
> a high price to pay just to use the tool.
>
> > >Can you possibly do ls, etc. all through curl's interface, or am I out
of
> > >luck here?
> >
> > Yes you can:
> >
> > curl -ftp-ssl ftp://machine.site.com/path/
> >
> > If you end the URL with a slash, curl will assume that the right-most
part
> > is a dir and use LIST in there. If you omit the slash, it'll consider it
as
> > a file and attempt to RETR it.
>
> well, that's cool, but I was thinking of something more along the lines
of:
>
>
> curl -ftp-ssl ftp://machine.site.com --batch <list_of_ftp_commands>
>
> where <list_of_ftp_commands> contains 'ls', 'cd', etc.
>
> IMO this would be a much more useful interface into both ftp and ftps. It
> also mirrors what OpenSSL has done with sftp.
>
> Ed
>
Received on 2005-02-01