NAME¶
ftp-upload - batch transfer local files to an FTP server
SYNOPSIS¶
ftp-upload [
any-switch]... {[
repeatable-switch]...
file...}...
DESCRIPTION¶
ftp-upload is used to send local files to an FTP server. It isn't
interactive, it's meant to be used from scripts. It is disciplined about its
exit value and it doesn't output informational messages by default.
There are two kinds of switches. Initial switches have to appear before any
filenames, they affect the session as a whole. Repeatable switches can appear
interspersed with the file names, they affect the transfer of the files which
appear after them on the command line.
OPTIONS¶
Initial switches
These have to be used before any file names listed on the command line.
- --debug
- Turn debugging on.
- --help
- Show the usage message and die.
- --ignore-quit-failure
- Don't complain or set a failure exit code just because the QUIT command
fails. This can be necessary because some servers, in blatant disregard of
RFC 959, close the command channel when you send them an ABOR
command.
- -v, --verbose
- Print informational messages to stdout.
- --version
- Show the version number and exit.
Initial switches which specify connection information
These also have to be used before any file names listed on the command line.
They specify the information used to set up the FTP connection.
- --account account
- This specifies the account to be used when logging into the remote system.
This is distinct from the user name used to log in. Few systems need this.
There is no default.
- -h, --host host
- Specify the host to which to connect. There is no default, you have to
specify this switch.
- --passive
- Force the use of passive (PASV) transfers. Passive transfers are required
with some firewall configurations, but if you have such you'd do better to
configure Net::FTP so that it knows when to use them (see Net::Config). If
you need to use passive transfers with certain (broken) servers, however,
this switch is your best bet. Alternatively, you can set $FTP_PASSIVE to 1
in the environment (see Net::FTP).
- --password pw
- This gives the password which will be used to login. The default is your
email address.
Note that you should not specify a real (secret) password this way, as on
most systems anybody on the machine can see the arguments you pass to your
commands. Use one of other password-setting switches instead.
- -s, --password-stdin
- This tells ftp-upload to read the password from standard input. No
prompt will be printed, and a single line will be read. Most people will
use this switch to specify the password. Eg,
echo 3x9sjJJh ⎪ ftp-upload -sh $host -u $user $file
Using echo this way is safe where the --password switch isn't if the
echo command is built in to the shell.
- --password-fd fd
- This is like --password-stdin except that it reads the password
from the file descriptor numbered fd.
ftp-upload -h $host -u $user --password-fd=3 3<$pw_file $file
- -u, --user user
- Specify the user name to use when logging in. The default is
"anonymous".
Repeatable switches
These switches can be used anywhere on the command line (except after the last
file name). They affect the transfer of files listed after them.
- --as remote-name
- Normally a file is transferred using the same name it has locally. If you
use this switch the next file transferred will be called
remote-name on the other host instead.
ftp-upload --host $host --as index.htm index.html
- -a, --ascii
- Perform transfers in ASCII mode.
- -b, --binary
- Perform transfers in binary mode. This is the default.
- -d, --dir dir
- Change directory to dir on the FTP server before continuing. You
can use this multiple times between files, ftp-upload will chdir
once for each time you specify it. Using ".." as the dir
will cause an FTP "CDUP" to be done rather than a
"CWD".
- --full-path
- Normally uploaded files go into the current directory on the remote host,
even when the local file name given contains slashes. Eg, if you say
ftp-upload -h $host /etc/motd
ftp-upload will upload the file as motd, not
/etc/motd. This differs from how the standard ftp program
works, and it also differs with how ftp-upload worked before
version 1.3.
If you specify --full-path, you'll get the other behavior. A request
to upload dir/file will tell the server to store dir/file
rather than file.
When you use --as the --full-path setting doesn't matter.
--full-path only tells the program what name to use when it's
choosing the name.
- --no-full-path
- Disable --full-path. This is the default.
- -l, --ls
- Try to get a remote directory listing of files after transferring them. I
say "try" because there's no guaranteed way to do this with the
FTP protocol. The command I run is "LIST file". This will
generally work if file doesn't contain any special characters.
- -L, --no-ls
- Disable the --ls behavior.
- --tmp-none
- Transfer files directly, don't do anything special to try to ensure that
they don't appear under their real names on the remote machine until the
transfer is finished. Each file is transferred with a single simple
"STOR". This is the default.
- --tmp-samedir
- Transfer files to the remote machine using a temporary name, then rename
them when the transfer finishes. This won't work if the remote server
doesn't give a recognizable response to the "STOU" command.
If the server's response to "STOU" isn't recognized by Net::FTP
but is reasonable, Graham Barr might be willing to change Net::FTP to
recognize it. If you like you can send the "--debug" output to
me and I'll coordinate such requests.
- --tmp-dir dir
- Transfer files to dir on the remote host, then rename them when the
transfer is complete. This is safer than --tmp-samedir because it
doesn't use "STOU" and so it works with more servers.
ftp-upload -h $host --tmp-dir incoming $file
- --tmp-format fmt
- Transfer files to "sprintf(fmt, file base name)",
then rename them when the transfer is complete. Like --tmp-dir,
this is safer than --tmp-samedir because it doesn't use
"STOU" and so it works with more servers.
ftp-upload -h $host --tmp-format tmp.%s $file
AUTHOR¶
Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>