Re: I need help to use find and curl together to upload a directory

[Kamil Dudka]

On Tuesday 13 August 2013 01:35:02 Christoph Roland Murauer wrote:
> Am 12.08.2013 um 18:46 schrieb James Youngman <address@hidden>:
> > 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 address@hidden: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