Topic: create directory with ftp?

[alanlehman]

I need to be able to create a directory for each day's data on my web server. I'm using ftp push to upload data every 5 minutes but it won't create directories.

Path (file): %Y%m%d/WxData-%Y%m%d-%H%M.csv
only reports "directory not found"

I tried using a script to do this, but there is no ftp or curl client installed (that I could find anyway).

Thanks,
Alan

[bchwdlks]

The meteobridge (ver 3.2) has a 'ncftpput' command available at the command line level. I have used it in the past to do some file transfers. The documentation on ncftpput (http://www.ncftp.com/ncftp/doc/ncftpput.html) defines a -R option to transfer a compete directory structure.

It looks like you should be able to make it work in your script.

[alanlehman]

Thanks.
Do you know if there is a way to use strftime parameters as input?
I wanted to do something like this to create directories named YYYYmmdd.

ncftpput -u xxx -p xxx -m xxx.org %Y%m%d filename

[bchwdlks]

ncftpput -u xxx -p xxx -m xxx.org %Y%m%d filename

ncftpput -u xxx -p xxx -m xxx.org `date +%Y%m%d` filename

should execute as

ncftpput -u xxx -p xxx -m xxx.org 20170628 filename

[alanlehman]

Back-quote. Duh. Thank you!