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Help with FTP get command
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Junior Member
Join Date: May 2001
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I've always used RBrowser for FTP, but I need to write a script, so I've been trying to learn how to use the command line ftp utility.
After connecting to a server, if I type...
get pathname1/pathname2/filename
...then I'm told that the file or directory does not exist. However, if I type...
cd pathname1/pathname2/
get filename
...everything works fine. Can you not use pathnames with the get command, i.e., get works only in the current directory?
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Join Date: Jun 2000
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I just tried it out and it worked for me. Read the man page for ftp and you'll see some advice for using ftp with scripts.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Chico, CA and Carlsbad, CA.
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Originally Posted by Tom C
After connecting to a server, if I type...
get pathname1/pathname2/filename
...then I'm told that the file or directory does not exist. However, if I type...
Did the filename in question have a space in it?
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Junior Member
Join Date: May 2001
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I figured out what the problem was. If you type...
get /path1/path2/filename
...with only one filename, it assumes that you're talking about the destination, not the source. The following works fine:
get sourcepath1/sourcepath2/sourcefile targetpath1/targetpath2/targetfile
Thanks for the help.
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