[CLUE-Tech] help me, I am in FTP hell

Lynn Danielson lynn.danielson at clue.denver.co.us
Mon Apr 9 10:14:51 MDT 2001


Jeffery Cann wrote:
> 
> I need to recursively delete directories ( rm -r ) using only (sigh) an FTP
> client.  I have tried the default ftp and NcFtp (command line).
> 
> Can someone recommend an ftp client that will do an rm -r?

You might check out lftp.  I'm not sure whether it has this capability,
but it has a lot of features, including mirroring which implies recursive
gets and puts.  Perhaps it can do recursive deletes as well.

fwiw,

Lynn



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