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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!newspump.sol.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.sgi.com!csulb.edu!drivel.ics.uci.edu!news.service.uci.edu!mcoogan From: mcoogan@parker.bio.uci.edu (Michael Coogan) 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,co Subject: Re: ftp gurus needed Date: 5 Sep 1996 20:24:39 GMT Organization: UCI Bio-Sci Internet Services Lines: 57 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <50ncu7$fmp@news.service.uci.edu> References: <50n5su$22m@magus.cs.utah.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: parker.bio.uci.edu Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.questions:87029 comp.unix.admin:46837 comp.unix.shell:36309 comp.unix.misc:24895 comp.unix.bsd:16809 comp.unix.solaris:81345 comp.unix.sys5.r4:11290 comp.unix.user-friendly:3999 comp.security.unix:27545 comp.unix.i386:7463 In article <50n5su$22m@magus.cs.utah.edu>, Roger Simmons <rwsimmon@cadesm44.eng.utah.edu> 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 I have no idea ;) You may want to try ncftp, it allows many more commands than normal ftp. In particular, it supports redirection, and flags to common ftp commands such as ls. I have not used this program extensively, so I don't know if it will do EXACTLY what you want... I also do not know if there is a binary available for your system, though I believe you can get the source. > >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. Both of these can be done with xDir (if you run X-windows) by the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory. Check out their homepage for more info. Sorry I don't have the URL, but a web search on the lab should pull it up. Again, I don't know about your system... NB: You may have to tar the directory stucture up on your local machine, I don't know whether xDir allows that PARTICULAR command. If you don't use X, then you may want to check out the mirror perl script. I believe you can find it by searching in the linux software map. > > boy this sure would be nice! >The remote system is SVR4.2 > >TIA > >Roger Hope this points you in a vaguely correct direction ;), --mike