Power

Greetings,

I have a question about using the FTP command mput. I'm still a little new to using FTP commands.  If I want to put multiple files from an IFS directory on one LPAR onto the same IFS directory on another LPAR would something like this work?  Do I always need to specify the "cd" command or can I specify the target directory on the mput command?

Example:

bin                  
namefmt 1            
sendpasv             
cd /myIFSFolder
mput /myIFSFolder/Test* 

Thank you,

Mike

Hi, Mike,

have not used ftp for a long time, from what I remember - you will use "lcd" on local host:

cd /myIFSFolder
lcd /myIFSFolder
mput Test*

Sometimes you need to also issue "prompt" - to toggle it, otherwise some ftp clients will ask confirmation for each transfer

bin
cd /myIFSFolder
lcd /myIFSFolder
prompt
mput Test*

However. If you have "ssh" connection configured, and, if company policy allows it, I highly recommend spending an extra effort and install "rsync" on both ends

Then, from local host it will become simple

rsync -aPH /sourcedirectory/myIFSFolder user@desthost:/destdirectory

or

rsync -aPH /sourcedirectory/myIFSFolder/ user@desthost:/destdirectory/myIFSFolder

There are multiple benefits from using "rsync", man pages or docs elsewhere will provide more info.