I need to make a script for an FTP server that will detect when a file is downloaded and then either rename or move or delete that file to prevent it from being re-downloaded. Is there a way to do this by storing a file on the FTP server that will always be looking for when a file is downloaded, and then executing that process? I assume it could be done with a bash script, but I dont know enough about them to know if it can be constantly running/checking for if a file is downloaded.
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I am transferring files through PSFTP to 3rd party server using Batch files. While transferring files, due to buffering issues, files are being broken/not transferred fully.
As a remedy, 3rd party requested us to name each file with '.new' before starting file transfer and remove '.new' once file is transferred fully/successfully.
Please let me know Batch script commands to implement above. Please let me know if you need additional info.
To rename a file, use mv command (or it's ren alias):
put c:\local\path\file /remote/path/file.new
mv /remote/path/file.new /remote/path/file
Though if you are transferring multiple files using a wildcard, this won't help you.
A relatively simple solution for multiple files is using a temporary upload folder. After the upload finishes, you can move all files at once to the target folder:
mput c:\local\path\* /temp/path
mv /temp/path/* /remote/path
For a similar discussion, see also SFTP file lock mechanism.
If you need to use the solution with extensions, you can use WinSCP, as it allows you to automatically use a temporary file name for upload. Though it uses .filepart, not .new extension.
put -resumesupport=on c:\local\path\* /remote/path/
See WinSCP article on Uploading to temporary file name for more details.
The article also shows (a way more complicated) solution using WinSCP .NET assembly that allows you to use even the .new extension.
If you choose to switch to WinSCP, there's a guide for converting psftp script to WinSCP.
(I'm the author of WinSCP)
I'm using a (cheap branded) local media station as an FTP server and I'm using FIleZilla to transfer files to it.
When I try to move or rename a file located on the media station, I'm getting
Command: RNFR [filename]
Response: 503 Command not understood.
I don't know whether this is because of an old or corrupted FTP version (it's a device older than 5 years and I think there are no updates available).
Is there an alternative to perform FTP rename or move commands?
Is there an alternative to perform FTP rename or move commands?
If you have telnet or SSH access to the machine you could do the renaming their. If not you might try to use the FTP SITE command with "mv from-name to-name". But I doubt that the server will support this if it does not even support the standard way of FTP to rename files.
Apart from that the only alternative is probably to download the file, remove it on the server and upload it again with a different name.
Using FTP commands I want to upload a large file once and then copy that file to many directories on the remote FTP server. All the copy commands seems to relate to copying from local to remote or the other way around.
Is there an FTP command to copy remote to remote?
are you trying to move the file? if yes, you can do it using rename command to move the file, as for copy i guess you still have to do the the get,send from local-remote way.
as for move command should be something like this
rename /oldpath/file2move.txt /newpath/file2move.txt
Basically just rename your file path that is infront of the file that you wish to move.
As far as I know, there is no such command available in FTP protocol. There are some extensions to SFTP protocol to do this (and, having SSH access, you can issue cp commands), but SFTP is not an FTP.
I have a pre-defined ftp link with a zip file on the other end that I want to save to a directory on my cloud server (running Windows Server 2008). Once the zip file has been saved to a specified directory, lets say "c:\MyZipFiles\ZipFile-1.zip" for example, I want to unzip the file so that all files contained within the zip file are accessible within the same directory. I'm currently doing this manually and I want to automate this process by creating a .bat or .cmd file that will perform these steps for me.
Once the zip file is unzipped, I have a task in the Task Scheduler of Windows Server Manager ready to use the unzipped files for other things.
The pre-defined link looks something like this:
ftp://idx.realtor.com/idx_download/files.zip
I would greatly appreciate anyone who can help me with this...
Batch file
ftp -s:ftp_cmds.txt host-name-goes-here
unzip local-file.zip
exit
ftp_cmds.txt
username-goes-here
password-goes-here
cd remote-directory-goes-here
get files.zip local-file-name-goes-here.zip
quit
This the batch file uses "unzip" to unzip the archive you can find it here: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/unzip.htm
Either put the binaries in the same directory or put them somewhere else and set your windows PATH
I used my own ftp to test most of this. Your ftp was offline for me, so it might take some tweaking but this should put you in the right direction.
I have an FTP batch file that uses DOS commands to pull down some files. After I'm done pulling the files down, I would like to move the files to an archive directory on the remote server. What FTP DOS commands do I use to accomplish this?
*I wasn't clear at first but this move has to take place on the remote server.
before you pull the files down, you can use the lcd (local cd) command to move to your archive directory and then pull them down directly there. you can then lcd back to your working directory.
otherwise you can perform the move in your bat after your ftp session is completed.
edit:
in the case that your archive server is remote, your best bet is to finish your ftp session and then perform the move in your .bat.
ftp has a rename command, that should move files remotely. I haven't tried it though