Scanning a ftp directory

Josef Lowder joe at actionline.com
Sun Aug 19 17:58:55 MST 2007


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On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 16:33:20 -0700, Frank Burton wrote
> I have a website that has a folder with a few thousand files and sub
> folders in it. I need to know the name of every file in this folder
> and it's sub folders. The web server is a go-daddy linux machine and
> my machine is running Mint linux. I have tried using an ftp client to
> scan and generate a txt file for me but it only returns the top level
> folders and nothing deeper. Google didn't really help me either. So I
> am looking for any method that will work. I am willing to try
> anything, be it cli, gui or a scripting language to get it done.

When I ftp login to my web host, at the ftp command line, 
I just use dir * and that lists out all of my directories and 
their respective sub-files or dir */* to get a listing of files 
at the next level down. 





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