FP Transfer

[Rodgers Hemer]

I will be transferring files from a Windows server to a SCO server and want to create a single transfer file. I don't believe that I can do that in the interactive mode, and there are too large a number of files to fit them all onto one command line. Can anyone tell me if the file names can be put into a text file and have the command line use the text file as the source of the file names to be transferred? If the text file can be used in this manner, what is the exact syntax to be used?

Thanks,

Rodgers Hemer
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[Rodgers Hemer]

I will be transferring files from a Windows server to a SCO server and want to create a single transfer file for use by fptransfer. I don't believe that I can do that in the interactive mode, and there are too large a number of files to fit them all onto one command line. Can anyone tell me if the file names can be put into a text file and have the command line use the text file as the source of the file names to be transferred? If the text file can be used in this manner, what is the exact syntax to be used?

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009, Rodgers Hemer wrote:

>I will be transferring files from a Windows server to a SCO server and want

>to create a single transfer file. I don't believe that I can do that in

>the interactive mode, and there are too large a number of files to fit them
>all onto one command line. Can anyone tell me if the file names can be
>put into a text file and have the command line use the text file as the
>source of the file names to be transferred? If the text file can be used
>in this manner, what is the exact syntax to be used?

You could use the zip command to pack multiple files into a
single file on *nix machines, and I presume that there are
similar capabilities available under the Microsoft virus,
Windows. ``zip -r foo foo'' would put everything under directory
foo into foo.zip.

Another thing I have done on *nix boxes that support CIFS (Samba)
mounts is to set the Windows machine to share the ``drive'' with
the data I want to transfer then use smbmount to mount it on the
*nix system, then use normal tools like cp, cpio, or rsync to do
the copy to the *nix system. While rsync is available for
Windows, sharing the Windows drive does not require any software
support on Windows, just its normal network sharing support.

Bill
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[RedGrittyBrick]

There are many ways to do this. One way is to make a tar "archive" file.
you'll need a copy of tar for Windows to archive the files. I use the
tar from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ but many others exist.

c:
cd \sourcefolder
tar cvf transfer.tar thisfolder otherfolder

Will create an archive in transfer.tar of all the files and
subdirectories within both c:\sourcefolder\thisfolder and
c:\sourcefolder\otherfolder. You can add whatever other directories you
need to the end of the command. You don't need to list files individually.

If you really want to include files using a text file containing
filenames, use tar's -I option
tar cvf transfer.tar -I filenames.txt

After transferring the archive file to Unix (for which I'd use FTP)
cd /destination
tar xvf /path/to/transfer.tar

Which will extract the files into /destination/thisfolder and
/destination/otherfolder

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