Re: Move files to ftp

Hi,

My challenge is that I have no control over when files appear in the source folder, so 
running a rm -rf after a lftp most probably will delete new files that have been added to 
source.

- 
Kai Stian


On Wednesday 17. December 2014 12:05:18 Alexander Lukyanov wrote:
> You can run rm -rf after mirror to remove any remaining files.
> 
> 23:37, сб, 13.12.2014, Kai Stian Olstad <[email protected]>:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm trying to move files recursive to a ftp server.
> > Since mput doesn't support moving files recursive I'm using mirror
> > instead.
> > 
> > lftp -e 'mirror -c -p -R --Remove-source-files /source /target; bye' -u
> > ftp
> > ftp://192.168.1.10
> > 
> > This sort of work since it remove the source files aka. move on the first
> > run.
> > But if the same files is copied in to /target directory again with cp -p
> > to
> > preserve the modification time, lftp doesn't put the file to the ftp
> > server
> > since the file already exist in /target and it doesn't remove the source
> > file
> > either.
> > 
> > Shouldn't lftp remove the source anyway since I used the
> > --Remove-source-files
> > argument?
> > 
> > Or is there another way to achieve this?
> > 
> > 
> > --
> > Kai Stian Olstad
> > PS: I tried sending this mail from a different domain but it did not
> > go through so I'll try with Gmail.
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