Wput
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Wput is a free open-source command line program that allows you to transfer files on a net by using the FTP. It comes with many useful features, and is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
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[edit] History
wput's history began with an initial version in Summer 2003. Only small amounts of code of this initial version survived to the current ones. Wput is developed by Hagen Fritsch. The program began as a simple file-uploader, but evolved soon, by implementing a wget-like look & feel interface, improving support for common standards in the ftp-protocol and finally by adding encryption capabilities which were rarely seen in ftp programs at the time.
In 2005 the author wrote a documentational work on wput. The current release 0.6 appeared on April 5th, 2006.
[edit] Features
This ftp uploader
- is background capable.
- supports resuming.
- supports connections through proxies.
- supports encryption using the AUTH TLS-method with help of GnuTLS.
- timestamping.
- can restrict its upload-rate.
[edit] Platforms
Wput is known to run on the following platforms:
[edit] Languages
Wput is being internationalized and available in English, German and Italian.
[edit] Examples
[edit] wput syntax
wput [options] [file]... [url]... url ftp://[username[:password]@]hostname[:port][/[path/][[file]
[edit] Example 1
This will upload local files to remote ftp server /dir/ path.
wput ftp://user:password@host/dir/ files
[edit] Example 2
Below is an example that I got to work on my computer - (It is non-intuitive to the way you may think should work)
#be one directory down from local directory you want to copy/mirror to the remote server /home/username/ # where /home/username/localDir is the one you want to copy/mirror to the remote server #/test/ is the remote ftp server directory I want the files to copy to /home/username/wput -vN ftp://branflake2267:xxxxx@192.168.11.69:21/test/ localDirtoUpload
[edit] man wput
Usage: wput [options] [file]... [url]...
url ftp://[username[:password]@]hostname[:port][/[path/][file]
Startup:
-V, --version Display the version of wput and exit.
-h, --help Print this help-screen
-b, --background go to background after startup
Logging and input file:
-o, --output-file=FILE log messages to FILE
-a, --append-output=FILE append log messages to FILE
-q, --quiet quiet (no output)
-v, --verbose be verbose
-d, --debug debug output
-nv, --less-verbose be less verbose
-i, --input-file=FILE read the URLs from FILE
-s, --sort sorts all input URLs by server-ip and path
-I, --input-pipe=COMMAND take the output of COMMAND as data-source
-R, --remove-source-files unlink files upon successful upload
Upload:
--bind-address=ADDR bind to ADDR (hostname or IP) on local host
-t, --tries=NUMBER set retry count to NUMBER (-1 means infinite)
-nc, --dont-continue do not resume partially-uploaded files
-u, --reupload do not skip already completed files
--skip-larger do not upload files if remote size is larger
--skip-existing do not upload files that exist remotely
-N, --timestamping don't re-upload files unless newer than remote
-T, --timeout=10th-SECONDS set various timeouts to 10th-SECONDS
-w, --wait=10th-SECONDS wait 10th-SECONDS between uploads. (default: 0)
--random-wait wait from 0...2*WAIT secs between uploads.
--waitretry=SECONDS wait SECONDS between retries of an upload
-l, --limit-rate=RATE limit upload rate to RATE
-nd, --no directories do not create any directories
-Y, --proxy=http/socks/off set proxy type or turn off
--proxy-user=NAME set the proxy-username to NAME
--proxy-pass=PASS set the proxy-password to PASS
FTP-Options:
-p, --port-mode no-passive, turn on port mode ftp (def. pasv)
-A, --ascii force ASCII mode-transfer
-B, --binary force BINARY mode-transfer
--force-tls force the useage of TLS
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