Comments on: Recursive delete with the command line windows FTP client

By: bill

bill — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:39:29 +0000

Be sure to run:
set ftp:list-options “-a”

Or else files beginning with “.” will not be processed, and nor will you be able to delete folders containing those files.

By: bill

bill — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:05:26 +0000

lftp seems to still be available in cygwin

By: guy

guy — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:38:08 +0000

research mdelete. it is your friend.

By: Walter Vos

Walter Vos — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 07:14:10 +0000

Hi Terry (my name’s Walter btw),

I wouldn’t know. I’m certainly not an expert in this field. I’d try to find some lftp support forum if I were you.

Walter

By: Terry

Terry — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:57:41 +0000

Hi Daniel,

This method almost works for me, but then errors out. When I run the script, it moves to the directory I specify, deletes the files in that directory, and then attempts to change to the first subdirectory. But this fails and I get the following error: “The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect” The only difference between my script and yours is I’m using mrm instead of rm.

Would you have any ideas on why it is having trouble changing directories? The sub directory name is “SubDirOne” so I don’t think it’s the directory name that is causing a problem. Thanks.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:34:50 +0000

Hi Walter, that was very good of you. Thank you very much!

By: Walter Vos

Walter Vos — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 05:05:46 +0000

Hi Daniel,

I still had the zip just in case this would happen. I updated the link in my post. Will this get me in trouble though? It’s open source right?

Good luck with it!

Walter

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:07:29 +0000

Hi, I was very interested in using this to deploy websites, but the windows version of lftp seems to have disappeared off the internet. Any idea where it is, or could you somehow make it available? Thanks for any help.