Re: [tlug] find files and put with ncftp

["Nguyen Vu Hung" <vuhung16plus@??>]

On 3/7/07, Zev Blut <zb@??> wrote:
> 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
It didn't work ( I tested ). As I said in previous email:

in my case, the stdin contains filenames, not contents of the files. I
know I can cat it and then ncftpput, but we can't remember the file name:

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