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Dustin Cook
Dustin Cook

Reputation: 1305

Transferring the Contents of a Folder Using smbclient

I have written a Shell script that moves into a directory with some binaries files present.

What I am looking to do is transfer all the files present inside this directory.

cd /home/user/binaries
smbclient //ip.address/directory$ password -W domain -U username << ENDOFMYSMBCOMMANDS
prompt
put *
exit
ENDOFMYSMBCOMMANDS

I tried to use put * to transfer all files - but this is not accepted.

The only other option I know of is to go one folder up, and use the command mput binaries - but this copies everything including the folder.

How can I modify my script to only transfer the contents of the directory?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 6870

Answers (2)

peedee
peedee

Reputation: 3749

I'm going to format the self-answer of Dustin a bit differently into a real one-liner. It is also possible to add the prepended "cd" command into the smbclient command, like so:

smbclient //ip.address/directory -W domain -U username \
-c 'prompt OFF; recurse ON; cd remote/target/directory; lcd /local/source/directory; mput *'

Upvotes: 3

Dustin Cook
Dustin Cook

Reputation: 1305

I had the answer with me all along!! I was under the impression that mput could only be used to transfer a directory, turns out that using mput * inside a directory will copy all the files located within that directory!

cd /home/user/binaries
smbclient //ip.address/directory$ password -W domain -U username << ENDOFMYSMBCOMMANDS
prompt
put *
exit
ENDOFMYSMBCOMMANDS

Going to leave this here for anyone else who gets stumped on this like me!

Upvotes: 1

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