• NAME
• SYNOPSIS
• DESCRIPTION
• OPTIONS
• FILELIST FORMAT
• CONFIG FILE FORMAT
• PREREQUISITES
• COREQUISITES
• TODO
• AUTHOR
• COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
• SCRIPT CATEGORIES
• README

NAME

webupload.pl - website uploader

SYNOPSIS

webupload [options]

DESCRIPTION

This is a perl script for uploading files to an FTP site. This script was designed specifically for uploading website files, in the cases where:

• You don't want to use an interactive FTP Program

• You want to be able to specify specific files/directories to upload rather than spending time uploading the whole site.

webupload allows the user to specify a file containing a list of files/directories to be uploaded. The user may also specify commands to create directories or delete files.

A distinction is made between binary and text files via their extensions for the purpose of uploading. A config file can be used to specify inital setup/connection paramters.

Special support is integrated for those that wish to use ActiveState's port of Perl with cygwin. If the script detects that $^O is MSWin32 and the $CGYWIN environment variable is set, it will use cygpath to translate POSIX cygwin paths into Win32 paths.

OPTIONS

• --config | -c filename
  Name of config file containg FTP host settings

• --file | -f filename|dirname
  Name of file or directory to upload

• --help | -h | -?
  Print Help Information

• --list | -l filename
  Name of a file containg a list of files to upload

• --nobinary | -n
  Skips binary files.

• --version | -v
  Prints version information

FILELIST FORMAT

Each file or directory should be listed on a new line without any characters preceding it.

If a line is prefixed by a hash (#) then it will be treated as a commend unless there really exists a file or directory with a name equal to that line.

If a line is prefixed by a percent sign (%) then it will be treated as a command. The currently supported commands are:

• rm

• mkdir

• chmodx (which is chmod 777)

CONFIG FILE FORMAT

     host    ftp.xxx.com
     user    me
     pwd     xxx
     ldir    c:\websites
     rdir    /public_html/

If any of the fields are ommitted from the config file, the user will be prompted for them on the console.

PREREQUISITES

ConfigReader::DirectiveStyle

File::Find

Getopt::Long

Net::FTP

Pod::Usage

Term::ReadLine

COREQUISITES

none

TODO

Allow list of binary_extensions to be specified in the config file.

Any other good suggestions that people send me!

AUTHOR

 Sagar R. Shah
 sagarshah@softhome.net
 http://www.shahdot.com/

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (c) 2002, Sagar R. Shah. All Rights Reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl.