Worker node ftp automation

[Bryson Jones]

Just a thought, but have you tried combining the variables to get the path and filename?

I suspect that your shell connection may not be resolving the full path correctly. (meaning going back to root/Volumes may be throwing it off.)

I know that it should be able to work from the full path, but since it’s not, can you see if perhaps you have a root directory set that it’s working from? It may also be that the ftp won’t create the “/Volumes/” part of the destination. I’m not sure, but I do have an idea to give you what you’re showing as your working path. See what you think of the following.

/Volumes/Fish/Til/4_stj_reise/Til_lyd/TEST_output/TEST11.mov is the full path, but I see that,

4_stj_reise/Til_lyd/TEST_output/TEST11.mov seems to work. If I’m reading this correctly , this means that you are using the “grandparent” folder (third folder up) to correctly start your path. If so, then you are in luck. In the next release $R will give you the grandparent path, and so $R$f will give you the correct path for your ftp command.

Would this help you?

bryson

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[Pål henrik Wagner]

Hi,

thanks for the reply.

The thing is that I believe I have mixed up source and destination in this command.

This command works:
/usr/bin/ftp -u ftp://nnnn:xxxx@nnnn.ftp.abc.no/4_stj_REISE/til_LYDETTERARBEID/ TEST11.mov

where TEST11.mov is the local file, and I already am in the correct local folder within Terminal.

If I understand you correctly, I should try this:

/usr/bin/ftp -u ftp://nnnn:xxxx@nnnn.ftp.abc.no/4_stj_REISE/til_LYDETTERARBEID/ 4_stj_reise/Til_lyd/TEST_output/TEST11.mov

i get the same problem as earlier:

Connected to xxx.ftp.xxx.no.
220 Servers identifying string
331 Password required for xxxx
230-Last login was: 2010-08-17 14:22:26
230 User xxxx logged in
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
200 Type set to I
250 CWD command successful
250 CWD command successful
local: 4_stj_reise/Til_lyd/TEST_output/TEST11.mov remote: 4_stj_reise/Til_lyd/TEST_output/TEST11.mov
ftp: local: 4_stj_reise/Til_lyd/TEST_output/TEST11.mov: No such file or directory

From this, I think that I’ve been mixing up source and destination folders. My intention is to upload TEST11.mov to the ftp catalogue

/4_stj_REISE/til_LYDETTERARBEID/

The local path of TEST11.mov is
/Volumes/Fish/Til/4_stj_reise/Til_lyd/TEST_output/

Not sure if I am able to explain very clearly, though…

Pål Henrik

[Marvin Holdman]

It appears from your error message that you are trying to log into a file.

I assume that you wish to create the file “TEST11.MOV”. You won’t be able to upload a file there. You need to specify a folder to upload too.

Use a FTP Client and see what your root file path is when you log in. This will be where you begin your upload folder description (folder hierarchy).

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[Pål henrik Wagner]

The funny thing now, is that I found a way that *should* work, but still doesn’t.

If I put this command in the Worker Node

cd /Volumes/Fish/Til/4_stj_reise/Til_lyd/TEST_output/ ; /usr/bin/ftp -u ftp://nnnn:xxxx@xxx.ftp.xxx.no/4_stj_REISE/til_LYDETTERARBEID/ $f

I still can’t upload the processed file (the output file name is the same as the original).

But if I out the same line (substituting $f with the file name TEST13.mov), I get a successful ftp upload.

Is anybody else using the command ftp -u …… $l with Worker Node? Or something similiar for that sake.

If someone has some examples of usage with automated ftp commands, I would love to see some.

Cheers,

Pål Henrik

[Kevin Duggan]

Hi guys

try using curl . Curl will get you any place you want to go . Either Google in or try man curl in the terminal then use this syntax..

curl -T $b ftp://Username :Password@upload.Apple.com/SampleProject/$f

So from the top … the Unix command curl
-T upload the file specified
$b this is the Catdv Worker variable.. Click on the HELP button to get a full
list there are many preformed variables for you to utilise

ftp:// USERNAME: Password@Apple .com
example ftp://Kevin:letmein@CatDv.com/Upload Folder

$f Catdv variable the name of the file plus extension ie MyMovie.mov

hope this helps you all.

Kevin

[Kevin Duggan]

Hi guys

try using curl . Curl will get you any place you want to go . Either Google in or try man curl in the terminal then use this syntax..

curl -T $b ftp://Username :Password@upload.Apple.com/SampleProject/$f

So from the top … the Unix command curl
-T upload the file specified
$b this is the Catdv Worker variable.. Click on the HELP button to get a full
list there are many preformed variables for you to utilise

ftp://kevin:catdv@Catdv.com/Upload_Folder/ $f

$f the name of the file ie mypics.mov

Hope this helps…

Kevin Duggan
Catdv

apologies if this comes up twice it seemed to be truncated the first time I posted this

[Rolf Howarth]

Make sure you can do the operation from the command line first so you fully understand the command syntax, and only then work on doing it from the worker. Also, as Kevin suggested, you might find that curl is a more powerful alternative to the ftp command (it will also copy files by sftp, http, ssh, etc., not just ftp)

[Pål henrik Wagner]

Wow! Curl did it! Thank you guys!

It was very fair and easy, when I just got the syntax sorted out.

This is “Execute 3 Command” I use when the file is processed:

curl -T $l ftp://xxxx.ftp.xxxx.no/4_stj_REISE/til_LYDETTERARBEID/ –user user:password

where $l (that is the letter L) signifies the whole path of the processed file.

This command will upload the Worker Node processed file to the ftp site and subfolder as stated above.

Thank you again.