How can I create a directory on my server using FTP in applescript?

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How can I create a directory on my server using FTP in applescript?

Hi

I have created a script which successfully uploads files to my server using FTP and a curl command.

The one thing I haven't worked out how to do is how to create a directory on my server using applescript. At the moment I have to manually create the correct directory for the script to work, but would like to be able to automate everything.

Would this be possible?

Thanks

Nick

Macbook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.4), 2.66 GHz Intel Core i7 8GB RAM

Posted on Feb 20, 2011 8:52 AM

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Answer 1

Arkouda

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Feb 20, 2011 9:37 AM in response to nick_harambee

from http://curl.haxx.se/docs/manpage.html

--ftp-create-dirs

(FTP/SFTP) When an FTP or SFTP URL/operation uses a path that doesn't currently exist on the server, the standard behavior of curl is to fail. Using this option, curl will instead attempt to create missing directories.

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Answer 2

Camelot

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Feb 20, 2011 9:44 AM in response to nick_harambee

curl has a --ftp-create-dirs switch that tells it to create remote directories if needed, so just incorporate that switch in your existing shell command and you should be set.

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Answer 3

Feb 20, 2011 9:49 AM in response to Camelot

Thanks for these responses.

The shell command is:

do shell script ("curl -T " & outPath & " -u " & ftp_entire)

I'm not sure where to include --ftp-create-dirs

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Answer 4

Arkouda

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Feb 20, 2011 10:03 AM in response to nick_harambee

I am pretty sure you would do:

do shell script ("curl -T --ftp-create-dirs " & outPath & " -u " & ftp_entire)

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Answer 5

Feb 20, 2011 10:25 AM in response to Arkouda

Thanks Bernard.

I have tried that and still get the error message:

"curl: Can't open '--ftp-create-dirs'!
curl: try 'curl --help' or 'curl --manual' for more information
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- 0:00:01 --:--:-- 0
curl: (9) Server denied you to change to the given directory"

The other relevant parts of the script are:

set ftp_url to "ftp. ****.org.uk/artists/" & artistName2 & "/assets/"
set ftp_username to " *****@*****.org.uk"
set ftp_password to " ****"
set ftp_entire to ftp_username & ":" & ftp_password & " ftp://" & ftp_url

set outPath to outputFolder & fileCounter & ".jpg"

and then...

do shell script ("curl -T --ftp-create-dirs " & outPath & " -u " & ftp_entire)

Like I said, all works fine when the directories are already in place. I have permissions for the artists folder set to "777", i.e. writable. Because the script is trying to create two directories at once, i.e. "artistName2" and then "assets" under it, I wondered if this was significant, but then I tried with just one new directory, and still got the error.

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Camelot

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Feb 20, 2011 10:43 AM in response to Arkouda

do shell script ("curl -T --ftp-create-dirs " & outPath & " -u " & ftp_entire)

The -T switch tells curl the file to upload, which has to be the next argument on the command line, therefore this is getting interpreted as telling curl to upload the file '--ftp-create-dirs', hence the failure.

The solution to to just re-order the parameters:

do shell script ("curl --ftp-create-dirs -T " & outPath & " -u " & ftp_entire)

(that is, assuming that outPath is the path to the file to be uploaded)

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Answer 7

Feb 20, 2011 10:51 AM in response to Camelot

Ah, thanks a lot Camelot. That works fine.

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