[Cialug] lftp vs ncftp

[Dave Crouse]

You need to put the command in "quotes" I think.......
Something like

lftp -u username,password -e "mirror --delete --only-newer --verbose
path/to/source_directory path/to/target_directory" ftpsite


I think your just missing the quotes.


Dave Crouse




On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 6:20 PM, David Champion <dchampion at visionary.com> wrote:
> I'm used to using ncftp, trying to switch over to using lftp on RH / Centos
> machines where ncftp isn't always available.
>
> Here's an example of a one-liner in ncftp:
>
> ncftpput -F -u myusername -p mypassword ftp.myhostname.com
> /remote/destination/path  /local/path/filename.txt
>
> I'm trying to do something similar in lftp, but it looks to me like you have
> to use a 2nd script to run a simple put command, and call the script with:
>
> lftp -u myusername,mypassword ftp.myhostname.com -F myscript.lftp
>
> Where myscript.lftp say:
>
> cd /remote/destination/path
> put /local/path/filename.txt
>
> Does anyone know of a better what to do this? I tried doing something like
> this:
>
> lftp -u username,password -e put filename.txt ftp.myhostname.com
>
> From reading the man page, it looks like that should work, but it doesn't...
> gives the error:
>   Try `help put' for more information
>
> -dc
>
>
>
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