On 6 December 2015 at 02:01, Roman Shaposhnik <ro...@shaposhnik.org> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 1:32 PM, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: >> However, I have just discovered that although SFTP has a recursive put >> command, it does not have a recursive delete. >> >> Directories can only be removed when they are empty. >> >> As you can imagine, that makes tidying up after staging a website very >> tiresome (especially ones with Javadoc and source xref) > > I was passively monitoring this thread and dusting off my expect(1) man page, > but this could be a deal breaker even with automation.
It seems that sftp does not even support recursive listing, so one way to automate the process would be to use ls -l to show the directories, parse the response to find the subdirs, etc. Possible, but pretty tedious, and generates a lot of unnecessary network traffic. Another option is to use rm *;rm */*;rm */*/* etc to the maximum depth expected. That works for files. Unfortunately it seems that rmdir * is not supported, so the directories have to be done individually This will require listing parsing as above, but at least the listings will be somewhat shorter. [Note that sftp supports batch input, so this can all be be done without expect] Having rsync would make it somewhat easier. > Thanks, > Roman. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: log4j-dev-unsubscr...@logging.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: log4j-dev-h...@logging.apache.org
