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takeshin
Asked: 2010-05-16 00:01:36 +0800 CST

lftp: how to copy file on remote server

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How to copy file on remote server using lftp?

Moving files is as easy as using mv command, but is there any command equivalent to cp?

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3 Answers

  1. from automated bash script:

    lftp -u login,password some.host.com -e "put file ; exit "

    and from lftp's interactive shell:

    put localFileToBeSent
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  2. Check the mirror builtin to transfer one or several files :

    lftp builtin mirror can download or update a whole directory tree. There is also reverse mirror (mirror -R) which uploads or updates a directory tree on server. Mirror can also synchronize directories between two remote servers, using FXP if available.

    So,

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  3. Best Answer

    from the man page:

    ftpcopy
Obsolete. Use one of the following instead:
    get ftp://... -o ftp://...
    get -O ftp://... file1 file2...
    put ftp://...
    mput ftp://.../*
    mget -O ftp://... ftp://.../*
or  other  combinations  to  get FXP transfer (directly between two ftp
servers).  lftp would fallback to plain copy (via client) if FXP trans-
fer cannot be initiated or ftp:use-fxp is false.

    so you can copy a file, by doing:

    get filename -o ftp://user@ftpsite/directory/copyoffile

    perhaps that will work better than a put/get if only because you'll be doing something like FXP, and the server will be using its own local bandwidth

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