FTP Server- Question-Help me

[karthik_rcs]

Hello friends
I have some problem in my project.
I connect to a ftp server [PARTICULAR DIRECTORY IN THAT SERVER].
i have to download all the files from that directory to a specified directory in my local machine.

The Problem is , in order to check for status of the transfer. I need to know the file count [No of files in the FTP server].
If i know the count of files in the FTP server, then i can use that information for checking the number of files downloaded to my local directory .
This makes us confirm whether there was a successful transfer of all files.
How To Find Num of files in FTP Server directory in a FTP Session.


2. After transfer i have to move the files in FTP server from one directory to another.
say in ftp server i have directory called source , from where i mget all the files
after transfer i have to move those files to archive directory present in the FTP server itself.

Can we write mv command there in ftp session..

3. I connect to FTP from unix box [ using .netrc information]
Please help me on this

[ferrarif50]

I can answer your second question.

U need to do some shell scripting here.

Transfer all the files to a local temp folder and then retransfer it back to the FTP server.

U can automate this whole process using a shell script

#beg of file
#!/bin/sh
ftp -i -n <<HERE
open $1
user $2 $3
mget $3/*.*
close
quit

ftp -i -n <<HERE
open $1
user $2 $3
mput $4/*.*
close
quit

#end of file


Here $1 $2 and $3 are the ip address, username and pwd. $3 and $4 are the directories in the FTP server.

Hope this helps you.

[karthik_rcs]

thanks ferrari,
but how to find the number of files in the ftp server directory.
is there any way to find out that.?
thanks in advance
please help me.