At 14:28 -0600 10/6/08, Samuel Fitz wrote:
>i have been playing with cURL/terminal in an attempt to streamline my
>website updates. in the long run i hope to use cURL to manage the
>remote image directory of up to 30 sites, but at present would be
>happy to get it to work with one!
>
>i'm using terminal on a mac and when i submit this command line:
>curl -T "/local/file/path/test.gif"
>ftp://******:*******@www.allacadia.com//www/allacadia.com/images/site/
>
>i get this response:
>curl: Can't open '/local/file/path/test.gif'!
>curl: try 'curl --help' or 'curl --manual' for more information
>
>what i know: the ftp path is good. without the upload command i can
>connect to the ftp fine using cURL. i'm pretty sure the local filepath
>is good too. if i enter the path in terminal i get "cannot execute
>binary file" which tells me terminal is finding it.
>
>as far as i know it shouldn't be a permissions issue...

/local/file/path/test.gif is a bit strange for a Macintosh path. You must have created the three directories yourself starting at the root as opposed to $HOME. You needed to be a superuser to do that.

try
file /local/file/path/test.gif
in Terminal.app.
If it doesn't work try
sudo file /local/file/path/test.gif

Then have a look at each directory with
cd /local
ls -ld
which will show you the actual permissions. The failure to execute might be a missing execute permission in a directory.

You might also turn up the verbosity in curl -v.

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