[conspire] need recursive ftp put

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

If you have an old copy of Netscape Communicator lying about, it also
allowed recursive FTP put.

On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 12:28:43 -0800, Rick Moen wrote:

> Quoting Patrick Killelea (badraig at yahoo.com):
> 
>> Hello Cabal,
>> I need a way to put a big directory and all its
>> contents to an ftp site, i.e. a recursive put. I don't
>> have a shell on this remote site, just ftp
>> permissions. It's possible but not practical to do
>> mkdir over and over.
> 
> I haven't tried this, but here's part of the manpage for ncftpput:
> 
> DESCRIPTION
>        The purpose of ncftpput is to do file transfers from  the command-line
>        without  entering  an  interactive  shell.   This  lets you write shell
>        scripts or other unattended processes that can do FTP.  It is also use-
>        ful  for  advanced  users who want to send files from the shell command
>        line without entering an interactive FTP program such as ncftp.