Would definitely like rsync support. On 5 December 2015 at 21:21, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 > > -- Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com>
