# FTP#mget, FTP#mput

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**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [May 9, 2006, 9:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ftp-mget-ftp-mput/60057 "2006-05-09T21:23:48Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 9, 2006, 9:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ftp-mget-ftp-mput/60057/1 "2006-05-09T21:23:48Z")

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Hi all,

Is there a method in Net::FTP that corresponds to ftp’s mget and mput  
functions?

If not, is there any chance of adding this to ftp.rb?

Thanks,

Dan

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**Post date:** [May 9, 2006, 9:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ftp-mget-ftp-mput/60057/2 "2006-05-09T21:29:58Z")

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On Wed, 10 May 2006, Daniel B. wrote:

> 

this grabs directories if you give it something like

ftpget ftp://host/dir/dir2/\*

so it’s similar to mget

#!/dmsp/reference/bin/ruby  
require ‘net/ftp’  
require ‘uri’  
require ‘yaml’

def uriparse uri  
unless uri =~ %r/^ftp/  
host, path = uri.split %r|:/+|o  
URI::parse “ftp://#{ host }/#{ path }”  
else  
URI::parse uri  
end  
end

abort “#{ $0 } srcuri [srcuris]+ dst” if ARGV.empty?  
user = ENV[“FTP\_USER”] || “anonymous”  
password = ENV[“FTP\_PASS”] || ENV[“FTP\_PASSWORD”] || “removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid”  
debug = ENV[‘FTP\_DEBUG’]

ARGV \<\< ‘.’ if ARGV.size == 1  
dest = ARGV.pop  
lpaths = []

while((src = ARGV.shift))  
src = uriparse src  
Net::FTP.open(src.host) do |ftp|  
ftp.debug\_mode = true if debug  
ftp.login user, password  
ftp.passive = true  
ftp.binary = true

```
 paths = []

 if src.path =~ %r|\*$|o
   dir = File::dirname(src.path)
   ftp.list(src.path) do |listing|
     path = listing.split(%r/\s+/o).last
     paths << File::join(dir, path)
   end
 else
   paths << src.path
 end

 paths.each do |path|
   lpath =
     if test ?d, dest
       File::join(dest, File::basename(path))
     else
       dest
     end
   ftp.getbinaryfile path, lpath
   lpaths << lpath
 end

```

end  
end

y lpaths

-a

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**Post date:** [May 9, 2006, 9:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ftp-mget-ftp-mput/60057/3 "2006-05-09T21:33:33Z")

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On Wed, 10 May 2006, Daniel B. wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Is there a method in Net::FTP that corresponds to ftp’s mget and mput  
> functions?
> 
> If not, is there any chance of adding this to ftp.rb?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Dan

this does something like mput

#!/dmsp/reference/bin/ruby  
require “net/ftp”  
require “uri”  
require “socket”  
require “yaml”

def uriparse uri  
unless uri =~ %r/^ftp/  
host, path = uri.split %r|:/+|o  
URI::parse “ftp://#{ host }/#{ path }”  
else  
URI::parse uri  
end  
end

abort “#{ $0 } src [srcs]+ dsturi” if ARGV.empty?  
user = ENV[“FTP\_USER”] || “anonymous”  
password = ENV[“FTP\_PASS”] || ENV[“FTP\_PASSWORD”] || “removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid”  
debug = ENV[“FTP\_DEBUG”]  
srcs, uri = ARGV[0…-2], ARGV[-1]

uri = uriparse uri  
host, hostdest = uri.host, uri.path  
rpaths = []  
hostname, pid = Socket::gethostname, Process::pid

Net::FTP.open(host) do |ftp|  
ftp.debug\_mode = true if debug  
ftp.login user, password  
ftp.passive = true  
ftp.binary = true

srcs.each do |src|  
dest =  
if hostdest =~ %r|/+\s\*$|o or srcs.size \> 1  
File::join(hostdest, File::basename(src))  
else  
hostdest  
end  
destdir = File::dirname dest

```
 destdirs = []
 d = nil
 destdirs.unshift(d) while((d = File::dirname(d || dest)) !~ 

```

%r|^\s\*/+\s\*$|o)

```
 dirname, basename = File::dirname(dest), File::basename(dest)
 tmp = File::join(dirname, ".#{ basename }.#{ hostname }.#{ pid 

```

}.ftp")

```
 if debug
   state = <<-eos
   |@src <#{ src }>
   |@host <#{ host }>
   |@dest <#{ dest }>
   |@destdir <#{ destdir }>
   |@destdirs <#{ destdirs.inspect }>
   |@tmp <#{ tmp.inspect }>
   eos
   state.gsub!(%r/^\s*\|/o,'')
   puts state
 end

 destdirs.each{|d| begin; ftp.mkdir d; rescue Net::FTPPermError; 

```

end}  
ftp.putbinaryfile src, tmp  
ftp.rename tmp, dest  
rpaths \<\< dest  
end  
end

y rpaths

-a