du(1) for FTP sites

[Shawn O'Shea]

I started looking at writing it in Python. The library I was looking at
(ftputil http://ftputil.sschwarzer.net/ , easy_install ftputil) supports
walking the directory structure (much like os.walk or is it os.path.walk)
and provides a stat method to get info (including filesize) on the files
(therefore should be FTP server agnostic).

However it's the end of the semester, and getting school backlog done has
been more important than writing a fun little Python script.  :(

Glad you got something working to solve it and for sharing it!

-Shawn

On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 12:29 AM, Benjamin Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com>wrote:

>  Kevin's wget-based implementation worked (thanks again, Kevin!), but
> was slow due to repeated invocations of wget.  I looked at the code to
> see if I could do something about that... and that awoke the coding
> bug in me.  End result is implemented in terms of Perl Net::FTP and
> needs no external programs.  It may even be cross-platform, although I
> haven't tried it anywhere but *nix yet.  It's still very susceptible
> to differences in FTP directory format.  I've confirmed a Microsoft
> FTP server will cause it to choke horribly.  :)
>
> http://sites.google.com/site/mailvortex/unix-and-linux/duftp
>
>  Share and enjoy!
>
> -- Ben
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