Re: I need help to use find and curl together to upload a directory

[James Youngman]

On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 11:45 AM, Christoph Roland Murauer
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello !
>
> My WebHoster doesn't provide SSH or rsync so I decided to use find and curl 
> to upload my files on a FTPES (FTP over SSL / FTP over TLS) server.
>
> The curl part worked fine using
>
> curl -T ./filename -v -k -u address@hidden:password ftp://server/directory/ 
> --ftp-ssl
>
> But when I try to upload a whole directory (including subdirectories) using
>
> find . -exec curl --ftp-create-dirs -T {} -v -k -u address@hidden:password 
> ftp://server/directory --ftp-ssl \;
>
> I have the problem, that curl or find treats everything as a file instead of 
> directories if there are some (means I like to get the same structure on my 
> FTP account as I have on my local machine).

I don't clearly understand the problem you are trying to describe (you
might find it helpful to review
http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html).   Are you saying
that find launches curl with an incorrect command-line?    If so, what
command-line did you want and what are you getting?  If curl is being
launched with the command-line you expect, but you are not getting the
result you hope for, this is likely a problem that you should take up
with the curl user mailing list and/or developers.

But since you are passing --ftp-create-dirs to curl, perhaps you don't
want to pass any directories as the expansion of {} when invoking
curl.   If that's the case you could just put "-type f" on find's
command-line before the "-exec".

>
> How could I fix this ? Thanks for your answer.
>
> Regards,
>
>
> C. M.
>
>



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