Am logged ftp using terminal below command,
ftp hostname
username
password
cd ..
cd public_html
ls
prompt noprompt
lcd /var/xxx/mylocalpath
mget *
the above commands its working fine start download files ,But I want to ignore some folder for example my images folder having lot of size like 6Gb like that.Is it possible to avoid some folder when start download file in ftp terminal?
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I have to delete a directory with a large number of files on a GoDaddy server.
The hosting plan only gives me SFTP access without any in-browser file manager. So right-clcik delete folder is not an option.
So, I am using FileZilla to delete the folder and so far it has taken about 5 hours still a long way to go.
Is there any quicker way to delete the folder?
EDIT: No SSH.
Yes, the alternative way is through SSH, but you might have to do it from a terminal or putty if you're on Windows.
On Linux:
Open terminal
Type ssh your_username#your_server_domain_or_ip -p your_port_number then press enter
Enter your password (same as sftp passsword)
Navigate to the directory above want to remove using the cd command.
Say you're in /home/jorge/ but and you want to remove /home/jorge/pictures_folder , type in rm -rf pictures_folder
On Windows:
Download and install Putty!
Open putty and select SSH as the connection type and fill in your host/ip, port etc.. and click the Open button.
Enter your password when it asks for it.
Navigate to the directory above want to remove using the cd command on the terminal.
Say you're in /home/jorge/ but and you want to remove /home/jorge/pictures_folder , type in rm -rf pictures_folder
I am trying to copy multiple files from Linux machine to Windows using mget. Files are getting downloaded, but I'm not able to specify the destination directory (Windows directory)
The mget does not allow you to explicitly specify target local directory.
It always downloads the files to the current local working directory.
Though, you can change the local working directory using lcd command:
ftp> lcd C:\path
Local directory now C:\path.
ftp> mget *.*
I want to copy a zip file from an FTP path to a local folder in my computer.
My client previously used coreftp.exe for that purpose. But now he ask us to use ftp.exe [default in windows machine, available at C:\Windows\System32\ftp.exe] for that purpose. The ftp is in the format :
ftp://username#ftpserver.address.com
And want to download it to d:\sample\docs folder on my machine.
I want that in a batch file so that I can schedule it through windows task manager.
So could you please help me to write that command on the batch file.
Thanks a lot in advance.
FTP.EXE is capable of executing script files. So you could just put this into your bat file:
#ECHO OFF
CD d:\sample\docs
FTP -v -i -s:C:\some\path\ftpscript.txt
And something like this into your ftpscript.txt:
open ftp://ftpserver.address.com
username
password
cd myfolder
get some_zip_file.zip
disconnect
bye
This will download some_zip_file.zip into the current directory (d:\sample\docs).
I need to copy all the files of an FTP folder to my local Windows folder, but without replacing the files that already exist. This would need to be a job/task that runs unattended every hour.
This is what the job would need to do:
1. Connect to FTP server.
2. In ftp, move to folder /var/MyFolder.
3. In local PC, move to c:\MyDestination.
4. Copy all files in /var/MyFolder that do not exist in c:\MyDestination.
5. Disconnect.
I had previously tried the following script using MGET * (that runs from a .bat), but it copies and overwrites everything. Which means that even if 1000 files were previously copied, it will copy them again.
open MyFtpServer.com
UserName
Password
lcd c:\MyDestination
cd /var/MyFolder
binary
mget *
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks.
Use wget for Windows.
If you want to include subdirectories (adjust the cut-dirs number according to the depth of your actual remote path):
cd /d C:\MyDestination
wget.exe --mirror -np -nH --cut-dirs=2 ftp://UserName:Password#MyFtpServer.com/var/MyFolder
If you don't want subdirectories:
cd /d C:\MyDestination
wget.exe -nc ftp://UserName:Password#MyFtpServer.com/var/MyFolder/*
The "magic" bit (for this second form) is the -nc option, which tells wget not to overwrite files that are already there locally. Do keep in mind that old files are also left alone, so if a file on your FTP server gets edited or updated, it won't get re-downloaded. If you want to also update files, use -N instead of -nc.
(Note that you can also type wget instead of wget.exe, I just included the extension to point out that these are Windows batch file commands)
Hi I want to LOOP through files on FTP and copy one by one. Every thing is fine with FTP connection and accessing folders.
My question is How can loop through all files on FTP. It looks like there is no "For" type of functionality available to access FTP files because each line is considered as complete command.
open MyServerName 21
MyUserName
MyPassword
lcd E:\LocalDirectory
cd /FTPDirectory/upload
I WANT TO LOOP THROGH ALL FILES AND COPY ONE BY ONE TO LOCAL DIRECTORY
disconnect
bye
Why i want to loop through all files in FTP is, I want to copy only those files which are not locked and available for copy.
Use a different FTP client: wget.
With the -m option (for --mirror), use the following in a script
cd mylocaldirectory
wget -m ftp://username:password#hostname/theremotedirectory