[CLUE-Tech] FTPing many files

[Matt Gushee]

Kevin Cullis writes:

 > I'm now a FTPing fool, but now I want to do more. Mainly, I'd like to
 > "automate" uploading or downloading web pages from a web site emass. Two
 > of us are working on the same files and we want to download each of the
 > others changes, to begin with, so that we can update the pages.  Rather
 > than GET or SEND each file individually, I'd like to do it all at once
 > since they are all in one directory.

The lowest-tech approach would be to targz (that's as much an English
word as 'emass', so there!) everything, upload it, then untargz it on
the server. I understand you can use Expect to automate series of FTP
commands, though I haven't done it myself.

Matt