Upload all files to FTP server using lftp

lftp allow you to upload all files and sub folders using single command. With normal ftp command, you need to use put/mput command many times to do the same.

To download all files from FTP server, use “mirror” command. mirror command also allow you to upload files to remote server by specifying -R (reverse mirror) option.

This is very useful for uploading files from SSH shell account.

For help, use ? in lftp command prompt. To get help for specific command use

help 

Exampe

help mirror

To upload all files from local folder to remote server, run

lftp -d -u FTP_USER,FTP_PASSWORD FTP_SERVER_IP
set ftp:ssl-allow no
mirror -R /var/flashwebhost/vshare2.7/ public_html

Following will upload vshare2.7 folder to FTP root folder.

unzip vshare2.7.zip
lftp -d -u FTP_USER FTP_SERVER_IP
set ftp:ssl-allow no
mirror -R vshare2.7

See lftp