touch file on ftpserver

[wimvanherp]

Does anyone know how to 'touch' (set filedate on current datetime)a file that resides on an ftpserver on an easy way (= without downloading and uploading) ?

regards

Wim Vanherp

 

[MikeLacey]

Wim,

I don't know of a way to do this using FTP, sorry.

What is the server on the far end? UNIX?

Mike

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[wimvanherp]

Hallo,

yes the ftpserver is unix .

Wim Vanherp

 

[MikeLacey]

Hello Wim,

As it's UNIX there'll likely be a good version of remsh that you can tell to run a command on your behalf, or depending upon your environment, you might want to consider SSH.

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[tviman]

FTP is, as the name implies, a file transfer method. You'll need a telnet session or shell script to touch a file.

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[tviman]

Just thought of this - since the purpose of "touch" is to empty a file, you could upload an empty file of the same name, effectively overwriting the existing file.

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[wimvanherp]

I thought the puropose of touching a file was giving it an actual timestamp, in any case that's what i wanted, but it seems that it is not as easy as i hoped.

Anyway thanks for the replys

Wim Vanherp

 

[MikeLacey]

Wim -- did you try the remsh suggestion?

Mike

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