Re: wput? automatic ftp login/upload?
On Sun, 20 Jun 2004, Silvan wrote:
> I don't have time to go research this at the moment, so I'm going to
> be lazy and ask here.
>
> I'm writing some documentation, some of which is in CVS, but I have a
> printable PDF version that I want to host myself, so as not to waste
> SourceForge resources needlessly. I'd like to build an upload of the
> latest version into my document build/index/publish script, but I have
> no idea what the command line equivalent of a "wput" would be.
>
> I need to log into the FTP server with a username and password, then
> upload some files, allowing them to overwrite the existing files
> automagically. Hands off is strongly preferred.
>
> Any ideas? Thanks.
Well, as far as I know there are a few of those beasts around. Using
apt-cache search might help. But if you want the upload only done if the
file meets certain criteria (timestamp, size, etc.), then maybe my xfer
script could be of use to you. Haven't written an webpage for it yet,
but the code is available from this URL:
http://huizen.dto.tudelft.nl/devries/files/xfer
HTH
Grx HdV
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