I'm trying to get a list of all the files we have on a server ( specifically every pdf file we have there ). I've tried using total commander and search for the files. It worked to some extent, as in, i got a list of every pdf we had there, but no way of exporting the results ( we have 100.000+ files there )
I've tried using a bash script to get the information, but i'm not very experienced with linux, and i don't really know what i'm doing.
My script looks like this :
#!/bin/bash
hostname="<host>"
ftp -i -nv $hostname << EOF
user <username> <password>
ls -R
EOF
Running the above script i get
?Invalid command
501 Illegal PORT command
ftp: bind: Address already in use
221 Goodbye
Any help or pointing me on what to search would be greatly appreciated.
Try to configure ftp to use the PASV (passive) mode for data transfers. This done with the -p switch.
I'm not sure if you will be able to do a recursive file listing with this ftp-client. ls -R in my case just gave the list of files and directories in the current working dir. Maybe Recursive FTP directory listing in shell/bash with a single session (using cURL or ftp) will help you.