find file size on FTP from command line ?

[MoshiachNow]

HI,

I was using wget so far to download files from FTP.
What is the way to get the file size on FTP prior to downloading it,from command line?
does not look like WGET has this option.

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[JockMullin]

There are several FTP commands, such as "dir" which can display the directories on the FTP server.

There is a good FTP command summary here:

http://www.nsftools.com/tips/MSFTP.htm

Jock

 

[MoshiachNow]

I know.
I need this to be done from script,not going into FTP interface ...
thanks

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[JockMullin]

OK, so the FTP command can be started from a batch file.
The -s parameter allow for a list of ftp commands to be contained in the file named.

Example - if the batch file contains:

%windir%\system32\ftp -s ftpstuff.txt ftp.host.com ? ftp.log

then ftpstuff.txt can contain the commands you want to execute once connected to ftp.host.com, such as:

username
password
cd directory
dir
quit

Then ftp.log will contain the log of the session, which can be scanned for whatevery it is you are looking for.

Jock

 

[MoshiachNow]

thanks,

that's how I normally do it.
Thought there maybe some utility that excepts all as parameters in command len.

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