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rap-2-h
rap-2-h

Reputation: 31948

Delete FTP directory contents with CURL

I have a directory "backup" on an FTP server. I want to delete all files in this directory using CURL. Is it possible? I tried:

curl --ssl ftp://aaa:bbb@ccc -Q "RMD backup"

But seems it only works on empty directory.

Side note: I don't know the exact list of files in this directory.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 7223

Answers (2)

rap-2-h
rap-2-h

Reputation: 31948

I created a crontab that runs everyday and delete the backup that is 10 days old. So since it runs everyday, there is no "old" backups:

curl --ssl ftp://aaa:bbb@ccc -Q "DELE sql/$(date -d '+10 days' +'%Y-%m-%d').sql"

Upvotes: 1

Castaglia
Castaglia

Reputation: 3089

Using some shell script in conjunction with curl, you should be able to do this. For example:

#!/bin/bash

# Get the list of files in the directory.  Note that the
# trailing slash is important!
for f in `curl --ssl ftp://aaa:bbb@ccc backup/`; do

  # Delete each file individually
  curl --ssl ftp://aaa:bbb@ccc -Q "DELE backup/$f"
done

# You can remove the now-empty directory
curl --ssl ftp://aaa:bbb@ccc -Q "RMD backup"

Hope this helps!

Upvotes: 4

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