Send a whole directory by FTP recursively
Sometimes we could be in the situation, when we must use FTP in the shell. It’s extremely rare, but such situation could happen. So, recently, I had such situation, when I had a FTP access, which was available only from some dedicated server, and I had to move some folders by FTP.
The difficult part here, is what with the help of standard ftp command, You couldn’t send / retrieve hierarchical folders. So I had to find the solution with other FTP clients.
The most simple way - it’s to use ncftp client. It works perfectly, easy to install, easy to use.
To send a folder to the remote server when You are connected :
put -R yourfolder
To retrieve a folder :
get -R yourfolder
You could use also use ncftpput and ncftpget shell utilities to batch more easily Your uploads / downloads.