On Tuesday 13 August 2013 01:35:02 Christoph Roland Murauer wrote: > Am 12.08.2013 um 18:46 schrieb James Youngman <j...@gnu.org>: > > I don't clearly understand the problem you are trying to describe (you > > might find it helpful to review > > http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html). Are you saying > > that find launches curl with an incorrect command-line? If so, what > > command-line did you want and what are you getting? If curl is being > > launched with the command-line you expect, but you are not getting the > > result you hope for, this is likely a problem that you should take up > > with the curl user mailing list and/or developers. > > I don't know which part is the problem (find, curl or me). Maybe I kept my > question a littlebit to short. > > > But since you are passing --ftp-create-dirs to curl, perhaps you don't > > want to pass any directories as the expansion of {} when invoking > > curl. If that's the case you could just put "-type f" on find's > > command-line before the "-exec". > > I have on the FTP a directory call images. > > I have the following local structure which I want to upload (_site, css, > images and posts are directories). > > _site > > |- archive.html > |- css > | > | |- default.css > | > |- images > |. |- whatever.png > |- index.html > |- posts > | > |- whatever.html > > After running (inside the _site directory) > > find . -exec curl --ftp-create-dirs -T {} -v -k -u user@name:password > ftp://server/directory --ftp-ssl \; > > ... I had the following on the FTP. > > archive.html > css > default.css > images > whatever.png > index.html > posts > whatever.html > > css and posts are created as empty files (like with touch) and not as > directories like in the original structure. images is still a directory > and untouched. > > Find should query the directory _site and forward the result to curl. Curl > should upload everything and if it is a directory which doesn't exist on > the FTP, then curl should creat it as a directory and not as a file.
It cannot work this way. The -T option of curl takes only one argument. You need to call curl with multiple pairs of local/remote locations. Please have a look at the curl.1 man page. You may also want to exclude the directories from the list of files being transferred as James suggested. Kamil
