Intelligent FTP upload with LFTP

Mon, 14 Feb 2005 16:36:17 +0100

Ever since I started my blog, I was looking for a neat solution to upload my internet pages whenever Nanoblogger updates the local copy.

I didn't want just a recursive upload, because some directories (e.g. data) shouldn't be publicly accessible. My first attempt was a script using ncftpput, but it always uploads the whole site.

I wanted a more intelligent solution that copies only new and changed files. This is presumably a very common tasks, there should be plenty of ways to achieve it. But almost all FTP clients capable of intelligent uploads involve some GUI. The only command line client I could find is lftp (available on OS X from Fink and from Darwinports).

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Intelligent FTP upload with LFTP