Re: wput: bug-report

[Bill Geddes <bill@rootconnection.org>]

Your syntax worked perfectly - Thank You!!

wput is a very nice utility.  I will keep using it, and testing newer
revisions.  It functions in a system cloning tool that I am building
very nicely.


On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 08:49 +0100, Hagen Fritsch wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 21. Dezember 2004 00:49 schrieben Sie:
> > This is a feature request.
> > I would like to be able to have wput take standard input from a pipe and
> > successfully complete the transaction.  Currently, if I invoke it as: wput
> > -I"dd if=somefile bs=1m |" ftp://server/path, it just complains. Would it
> > be hard to make it work like:
> > dd if=somefile | wput - ftp://server
> > ?
> Actually this is possible ;) although a bit tricky.
> 
> tar cz dir/ | wput ftp://server/backup.tgz -I "cat -; echo > /dev/null"
> 
> So you can use cat as the input-pipe which will read from stdin and pass to 
> wput. The echo > /dev/null is because the command is invoked as
> "$cmd ftp user host port directory file"
> and its output will be read, but since you don't want cat to get these 
> additional arguments, they are passed to echo and to /dev/null afterwards.
> 
> So for your case the following should work:
> wput -I "dd if=somefile bs=1m; echo > /dev/null" ftp://server/path/file
> Do not forget to tell wput to which file you want to upload...
>