FTP help

[Torkell]

You're all nice helpful chaps so hopefully one of you will be able to answer this question:

Do you know of an easy way of generating a full listing of subdirectories and files contained in a certain directory on a FTP server, much like that produced by the DOS "tree" command? If there isn't a simple way of doing it with Windows, or a program which already does it, then it will be yet another thing for me to knock up a utility for.

Thanks,

[DanaPaul]

I believe WinFTP can do this for you...

http://www.softtechdesign.com/products/WinFTP/winftp.htm

[Torkell]

Right, I'll give it a try and see if it does that.

[Torkell]

Nope, doesn't appear to do that. Thanks anyway.

[Ralesk]

'xcuse me, but TREE only gave a directory structure, not?

as for a DIR like structure (Name, Size, TimeDate), I suggest TotalCommander for an FTP client.  It's quite decent for a [non-Unicode] Windows file manager too.

[Ian @ un4seen]

The ls -lR FTP command (or ls -lRa to include hidden files) will give you what you want.

[Torkell]

Do you want to bet on that, Ralesk?

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C:\Documents and Settings\Family>tree /?
Graphically displays the folder structure of a drive or path.

TREE [drive:][path] [/F] [/A]

   /F   Display the names of the files in each folder.
   /A   Use ASCII instead of extended characters.


C:\Documents and Settings\Family>

Ian, thanks. In this case the server prefers "LIST" to "LS".

<edit>WS_FTP timed out - with DOS ftp, using "ls -lR" works. If you were writing an FTP client you would send "LIST" to the server.</edit>