ncftpput(1)                          General Commands Manual                          ncftpput(1)



NAME
       ncftpput - Internet file transfer program for scripts

SYNOPSIS
       ncftpput [options] remote-host remote-directory local-files...

       ncftpput [options] bookmark-name remote-directory local-files...

       ncftpput -f login.cfg [options] remote-directory local-files...

       ncftpput -c remote-host remote-path-name < stdin

       ncftpput -C remote-host local-path-name remote-path-name

OPTIONS
   Command line flags:
       -u XX   Use username XX instead of anonymous.

       -p XX   Use password XX with the username.

       -P XX   Use port number XX instead of the default FTP service port (21).

       -j XX   Use account XX in supplement to the username and password (deprecated).

       -d XX   Use the file XX for debug logging.

       -a      Use ASCII transfer type instead of binary.

       -m      Attempt to make the remote destination directory before copying.

       -t XX   Timeout after XX seconds.

       -U XX   Use value XX for the umask.

       -v/-V   Do  (do  not)  use  progress meters.  The default is to use progress meters if the
               output stream is a TTY.

       -f XX   Read the file XX for host, user, and password information.

       -c      Read locally from standard input and write remotely to specified pathname.

       -C      Similar to -c, except a local pathname is specified.

       -A      Append to remote files, instead of overwriting them.

       -T XX   Upload into temporary files prefixed by XX.

       -S XX   Upload into temporary files suffixed by XX.

       -R      Recursive mode; copy whole directory trees.

       -r XX   Redial a maximum of XX times until connected to the remote FTP server.

       -z/-Z   Do (do not) try to resume transfers.  The default is to not try to resume (-Z).

       -E      Use regular (PORT) data connections.

       -F      Use passive (PASV) data connections.  The default is to use passive, but to  fall‐
               back to regular if the passive connection fails or times out.

       -DD     Delete local file after successfully uploading it.

       -y      Try using "SITE UTIME" to preserve timestamps on remote host.  Not many remote FTP
               servers support this, so it may not work.

       -b      Run in background (by submitting a batch job and then spawning ncftpbatch).

       -bb     Similar to -b option, but only submits the batch job.  You will need to run ncftp‐
               batch  for  the  batch  job to be processed.  This is useful if you already have a
               ncftpbatch process running, or wish to have better control of when batch jobs  are
               processed.

               For  example,  if you wanted to do background processing of three files all on the
               same remote server, it is more polite  to  use  just  one  ncftpbatch  process  to
               process the three jobs sequentially, rather than having three ncftpbatch processes
               open three simultaneous FTP sessions to the same server.

       -B XX   Try setting the TCP/IP socket buffer size to XX bytes.

       -W XX   Send raw FTP command XX after logging in.

       -X XX   Send raw FTP command XX after each file transferred.

       -Y XX   Send raw FTP command XX before logging out.

               The -W, -X, and -Y options are useful for advanced users who need to tweak  behav‐
               ior  on  some servers.  For example, users accessing mainframes might need to send
               some special SITE commands to set blocksize and record format information.

               For these options, you can use them multiple times each if you need to send multi‐
               ple  commands.   For  the  -X option, you can use the cookie %s to expand into the
               name of the file that was transferred.

       -o XX   Set advanced option XX.

               This option is used primarily for debugging.  It sets the  value  of  an  internal
               variable  to  an integer value.  An example usage would be: -o useFEAT=0,useCLNT=1
               which in this case, disables use of the FEAT command and enables the CLNT command.
               The  available  variables  include: usePASV, useSIZE, useMDTM, useREST, useNLST_a,
               useNLST_d, useFEAT, useMLSD, useMLST, useCLNT, useHELP_SITE, useSITE_UTIME,  STAT‐
               fileParamWorks,   NLSTfileParamWorks,   require20,   allowProxyForPORT,  doNotGet‐
               StartCWD.

DESCRIPTION
       The purpose of ncftpput is to do file transfers from the command-line without entering  an
       interactive  shell.   This lets you write shell scripts or other unattended processes that
       can do FTP.  It is also useful for advanced users who want to send files  from  the  shell
       command line without entering an interactive FTP program such as ncftp.

       By  default  the  program tries to open the remote host and login anonymously, but you can
       specify a username and password information.  The -u option is used to specify  the  user‐
       name  to  login as, and the -p option is used to specify the password.  If you are running
       the program from the shell, you may omit the -p option and the program will prompt you for
       the password.

       Using  the  -u  and  -p  options  are not recommended, because your account information is
       exposed to anyone who can see your shell script or your process information.  For example,
       someone using the ps program could see your password while the program runs.

       You  may  use  the -f option instead to specify a file with the account information.  How‐
       ever, this is still not secure because anyone who has read access to the information  file
       can  see  the  account  information.  Nevertheless, if you choose to use the -f option the
       file should look something like this:

              host sphygmomanometer.ncftp.com
              user gleason
              pass mypassword

       Don't forget to change the permissions on this file so no one else can read them.

       The -d option is very useful when you are trying to diagnose why a file transfer is  fail‐
       ing.  It prints out the entire FTP conversation to the file you specify, so you can get an
       idea of what went wrong.  If you specify the special name stdout as the name of the debug‐
       ging output file, the output will instead print to the screen.

       Using  ASCII  mode  is  helpful when the text format of your host differs from that of the
       remote host.  For example, if you are sending a text file from a UNIX system to a Windows-
       based host, you could use the -a flag which would use ASCII transfer mode so that the file
       created on the Windows machine would be in its native text format instead of the UNIX text
       format.

       You can upload an entire directory tree of files by using the -R flag.  Example:

           $ ncftpput -R pikachu.nintendo.co.jp /incoming /tmp/stuff

       This would create a /incoming/stuff hierarchy on the remote host.

       The  -T and -S options are useful when you want to upload file to the remote host, but you
       don't want to use the destination pathname  until  the  file  is  complete.   Using  these
       options,  you will not destroy a remote file by the same name until your file is finished.
       These options are also useful when a remote process on the remote host  polls  a  specific
       filename, and you don't want that process to see that file until you know the file is fin‐
       ished sending.  Here is an example that uploads to the  file  /pub/incoming/README,  using
       the filename /pub/incoming/README.tmp as a temporary filename:

           $ ncftpput -S .tmp bowser.nintendo.co.jp /pub/incoming /a/README

       A  neat  way to pipe the output from any local command into a remote file is to use the -c
       option, which denotes that you're using stdin as input.  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

DIAGNOSTICS
       ncftpput returns the following exit values:

       0       Success.

       1       Could not connect to remote host.

       2       Could not connect to remote host - timed out.

       3       Transfer failed.

       4       Transfer failed - timed out.

       5       Directory change failed.

       6       Directory change failed - timed out.

       7       Malformed URL.

       8       Usage error.

       9       Error in login configuration file.

       10      Library initialization failed.

       11      Session initialization failed.

AUTHOR
       Mike Gleason, NcFTP Software (http://www.ncftp.com).

SEE ALSO
       ncftpget(1), ncftp(1), ftp(1), rcp(1), tftp(1).

       LibNcFTP (http://www.ncftp.com/libncftp/).



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