FTPS Upload

Currently works only in bash environment.

Uploads a copy of a directory onto the ftp server

How to install ftpsupload

Pretty easy! (Mainly because its only works in bash)

Run the following command in your bash terminal

git clone https://github.com/Kirshoo/ftpsupload.git

Now for script to work properly, you only need to create .env with all necessary information about the server as shown below

How to use this

./ftpsupload.sh [directory]

[directory] is an optional parameter that will specify the directory, from witch files will uploaded.
By default its set to the current directory.

To upload the files, ftpsupload.sh will also look for .env file to get the necessary information about the server:

• $FTP_SERVER - the address of the server
• $FTP_USERNAME - name of the user, that will be connected to the server
• $FTP_PASSWORD - password for the user

Script uses .ftpsignore file for getting file patterns to be ignored (not uploaded).
The rules follow those of .gitignore (although not all of them):

• *.log - will ignore all files that end with .log
• abcd?.log - will ignore all files that start with abcd, end with .log and have any one character
• !important.log - will not ignore files that have name important.log

Some Runt about it

This is little bash script allows me to upload files from a directory to my FTP server.
How hard could this be, I hear you asking. Well, apperently globbing is not what I was after...

How hard could this be?

First, this script goes through the globbing patterns inside of an .ftpsignore file and parses all of the lines that are empty or commented. Then we need to transform those globbing patterns into a usable regex. (Shoutout to dan93-93 for creating a glob_to_regex() function)

Only then can we start looking at the files inside of a target directory.

We use .ftpsignore to ignore the files, we essentially need to inverse the regex outcome:
Instead the matched files, unmached files will be uploaded.

To upload the files one would usually use something like Firezilla or any other application that has encryption and stuff. My FTP server is not a fond of security so we have to use an ftp connection.

ftp is good, but it has its limits, esspecially when writing scripts with it. Thus the curl was chosen!

curl: cannot open this_directory

That's an unusual road block. curl cannot transfer directories as is, so we need to pass only files. But how can we open the directory inside bash? Turns out, quite easily - just use recursion!

The pushToServer.sh just pushes the files, we passed to it as arguments, to the server

Ommited pushToServer.sh functionality

Since pushToServer.sh performs a "single" line command, I decided to put the entirity of it into ftpsupload.sh for simplicity's sake

And this is where we are right now

Hope you find a use for this tool. Enjoy :D