Return to BSD News archive
Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!nntp.primenet.com!newspump.sol.net!news.mindspring.com!realtime.net!news From: Curt Finch 4138005 <curt@tkg.com> Newsgroups: unix.general,unix.hacks,unix.sys,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.shell,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.linux,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.sys5.r4,comp.unix.user-friendly,comp.security.unix,comp.unix.unixware,comp.unix.i386,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.sco.misc Subject: Re: ftp gurus needed Date: Thu, 05 Sep 1996 18:08:11 -0500 Organization: The Kernel Group, Incorporated. Lines: 42 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <322F5D5B.6684@tkg.com> References: <50n5su$22m@magus.cs.utah.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: westlake.tkg.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-RTcode: 4772af24329b3a87ca2f5cbc X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b5a (X11; I; SunOS 5.4 sun4c) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.questions:87134 comp.unix.admin:46904 comp.unix.shell:36357 comp.unix.misc:24915 comp.unix.bsd:16811 comp.unix.solaris:81640 comp.unix.sys5.r4:11301 comp.unix.user-friendly:4003 comp.security.unix:27567 comp.unix.i386:7465 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:4791 comp.unix.sco.misc:23852 Roger Simmons wrote: > > Summary: > Keywords: > > I have 3 questions RE: ftp all releated: > > I am looking for a program/utility or way to do the following: > > 1. Is there a way to execute a unix command at the remote host while at > the ftp prompt? > I want to obtain a directory listing(including subdirectories) on the > remote server. I need to execute: > find . -type d > dirlist.out > > and then ftp this file to the local machine > > 2. Also is there a way to transfer an entire directory structure > from the remote host to the local machine while retaining the > directory structure on the local machine? > > 3. Is there a command that will ftp an entire directory structure and put > it all in 1 tar file on the local machine. > > boy this sure would be nice! > The remote system is SVR4.2 > > TIA > > Roger i heard about a system at one point that uses ftp to mirror an fs locally. that would give you what you want, maybe. it was slow because every cd or cat would result in an ftp operation. i don't remember the name of the fs good luck -- Curt Finch - The Kernel Group Inc. - curt@tkg.com - (512)413-8005 - Find memory bugs even in stripped AIX binaries with a 7 day - - FREE Evaluation of ZeroFault at ... http://www.tkg.com/ -