Re: [tlug] find files and put with ncftp

["Zev Blut" <zb@??>]

On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 20:39:52 +0900, Nguyen Vu Hung  
<vuhung16plus@??> wrote:


> The man page writes and example:
>
> # The following example shows how to make a backup
> # and store it on a remote machine:
> $ tar cf - / | ncftpput -c sonic.sega.co.jp /usr/local/backup.tar
>
> in my case, the stdin contains filenames, not contents of the files. I
> know I can cat it and then ncftpput, but we lose the file name:

That is annoying at first, but probably very useful at other times.

> find -options | xargs cat - | ncftput -options remote_host remote_file
>
> how to make remote_file equals to the name of the file it is transfering?

Assuming you are not copying files in subdirectories, it might be as simple
as:

find -options | xargs ncftpput -options remote_host

If not you could brute force it with:
find -options -exec ncftpput -options remote_host {} \;

Zev