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anuraj - Jan 8, 2006 - 2:30 am

hey guys,


Im trying to do somthing on command line ftp, but its not happening.


My local machine is 10.4.3 and the remote machine is 10.3.8 (i think)


Ok so i can get in via ftp and all, except i cant pull the file i want.

The file i am trying to ftp is a .app file.

When using get application.app i get the following:

ftp>
ftp> get Remote\ Desktop.app
local: Remote Desktop.app remote: Remote Desktop.app
200 EPRT command successful.
550 Remote Desktop.app: Not a plain file.
ftp>


the file is defo there:

ftp> ls
200 EPRT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for '/bin/ls'.
total 1
-rw-rw-rw- 1 Anuraj Anuraj 6148 Nov 20 15:30 .DS_Store
drwxr-xr-x 16 Anuraj Anuraj 544 Nov 14 00:59 G5 backup
drwxr-xr-x 4 Anuraj Anuraj 136 Jun 22 2005 Remote Desktop.app
226 Transfer complete.
ftp>


Please can someone help, and tell me what i can do....


Thank for your time!

Anuraj Singh

bbfoto - Jan 8, 2006 - 3:08 am

As far as FTP is concerned, a .app file is actually a folder of stuff.
We don't see this in the GUI, but try this in the terminal and you'll see what I mean.

cd /applications/stickies.app
ls


you are best off to zip, tar or stuff (compress) the .app file first.
then try to FTP it.

Lots of stuff can get broken when you ftp unencoded native OS specific files.

If you really have to do it try
mget file.app instead of
get file.app

and also put quotes around filenames that have spaces in them.

I still think the .app file once downloaded will be broken or could be broken by trying to FTP it w/o compressing or encoding it first

anuraj - Jan 8, 2006 - 4:13 am

hey,

Thanks for that!

Could you tell me command line zipping commands?

Thanks dude

Anuraj Singh

bbfoto - Jan 8, 2006 - 10:25 am

zip input_filename