I have a mission to read information from some file with PuTTY.
please login to: 'somewhere' there you will find a file named 'INSTUCTIONS' with instructions on how to proceed.
How i do it?
Thanks.
Assuming you're SSHing onto a unix box of some kind, use "ls" to browse the file structure. Find the file, then use "cat". e.g.:
cat INSTRUCTIONS.txt
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I have access to a remote server over ssh. I have only read (no write) access on the server. There is a zipped log file that I want to read.
But because I have only read access, I cannot first extract the file and then read it, because when I try to unzip, I get the message Read-only file system.
My idea was to redirect the output of the gunzip-command to some other command that can read from the standrat input and display the content in the console. So I do not write the unzipped file on the file system (that I do not have the right) but display it directly in the console. Until now I couldn't successfully do it.
How to achieve this goal? And is there any better way to do it?
Since you do not have permission to unzip the file, you will first need to view the list of contents and their path. Once you get that then you can view content using -p option of unzip command.
View contents
zipinfo your.zip
View file contents
unzip -p latest.zip wordpress/wp-config-sample.php
In case it is a .gz file then use: gunzip -c wordpress/wp-config-sample.php
Hope this helps!
I have been using the gvim command :w to save and it works fine saving it to the desktop. However with the vim program, when I use the command :w, I cannot find where the saved file is located.
It should save to whatever directory you started writing it in (you can see that in the command line). You can also use your computer's file search to locate it and then inspect for the file path.
As said by others: by default it saves in the directory where you started it. But if you aren't aware in which directory you started, then a way to find out is to use the :pwdcom in vim. This will output the current directory. That's where vim will store the file.
C:\Users\"windows user"\AppData\Local\Packages\KaliLinux.54290C8133FEE_ey8k8hqnwqnmg\LocalState\rootfs\home\"WSL user"
Adding another answer to get the filename as well.
As mentioned by Cary and Jeen, vim saves your file to the directory from where it is started. You can get the directory where it is saved using :pwd.
If you are interested to get name of the file, it can be done by ctrl + g when your laststatus=1, which is the default value.
I usually set laststatus=2 which always show the filename.
There are multiple folders with subfolders and image files on the FTP server. The -R is disabled. I need to dump the recursive directory listing with the path name in a text file. The logic I have till now is that, traverse in each folder, check the folder name if it consists of '.' to verify it as a file or a folder, if its a folder, go in and check for subfolders or files and list them. Since I cannot go with the -R, I have to go with a function to perform traverse each folder.
#!/bin/sh
ftp_host='1.1.1.1'
userName='uName'
ftp -in <<EOF
open $ftp_host
user $userName
recurList() {
path=`pwd`
level=()
for entry in `ls`
do
`cwd`
close
bye
EOF
I am stuck with the argument for the for loop!
Sorry to see you didn't get any replies yet. I think the reason may be that Bash isn't a good way to solve this problem, since it requires interacting with the FTP client, i.e. sending commands and reading responses. Bash is no good at that sort of thing. So there is no easy answer other than "don't use Bash".
I suggest you look at two other tools.
Firstly, you may be able to get the information you want using http://curlftpfs.sourceforge.net/. If you mount the FTP server using curlftpfs, then you can use the find command to dump the directory structure. This is the easiest option... if it works!
Alternatively, you could write a program using Python with the ftplib module: https://docs.python.org/2/library/ftplib.html. The module allows you to interact with the FTP server through API calls.
I have a list of files inside a TXT file that I need to upload to my FTP. Is there any Windows Bat file or Linux shell script that will process it?
cat ftp_filelist | xargs --max-lines=1 ncftpput -u user -p pass ftp_host /remote/path
You can use the wput command.
The syntax is somewhat like this
wput -i [name of the file.txt]
Go through this link
http://wput.sourceforge.net/wput.1.html
It works for linux.With this it will upload all the URLs given in the text file onto your ftp server one by one.
You may want to check out Jason Faulkners' batch script about which he wrote here.
Anyone know how to put whole directories from local to another server using FTP command?
i had use mput , but it just transfer file only.
cd /images_temp --> ws_ftp virtual folder name
mput *.IMG --> just transfer multiple file
anyone can teach me what command i need to use to transfer whole directories?
thanks
You can use mput * or mget *. Confirm with a rather than y. You can change the prompting behavior using the prompt command. You will find more information in the manual page. In a unix environment, man ftp
You can iterate and decent into directories and use mput *.IMG but that would probably inefficient. Consider using ncftpput where you can upload the directory remotely with just one line.