ftp put regular expression

[louisJ]

Hi

I am writing a bash ftp script.
Is there a way to use the ftp put command with a regular expression to send only selected files (only those that do not begin by "boutique_"?

Thanks

#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/ftp -inv serveraddress<<ENDFTP
user user pass
cd /htdocs
bin
lcd /site
put !(boutique_*).php 
bye
ENDFTP

[louisJ]

up! please

[Cabhan]

You need to check the mput command. According to the ftp man page, mput does globbing the same as csh. I don't know how csh does its globbing, so that may be a good place to start.

[louisJ]

Thanks I use mput now.
But I still have a problem with the special query on the file names

#!/bin/bash

#shopt -s extglob

jojo=`find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -not \( -name "boutique_*.php" \) -name "*.php"`;

/usr/bin/ftp -inv server<<ENDFTP
user login pass
cd /htdocs
bin
lcd /localdir
mput "$jojo"
bye
ENDFTP

ftp says "invalid command"

Can someone help me get this done?