C Ftp Download Directory

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This blog helps you to download files from FTP with sub-directories, using FTP credentials.

FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is the most popular protocol to transfer files (download and upload) from one system to another system. It provides the fastest way to transfer files. There is much application available on Linux and windows to FTP services like vsFTPd, proFTPd for Linux, FileZilla Server for windows.

There are various ways to connect to the FTP server, Also you can find multiple free tools on the internet to work with FTP. But system admins know the power of command line. This article will help you to how to connect to the FTP server using the command line and Download and Upload Files using FTP protocol between the FTP server local system.

Remember that FTP is not a secure protocol. We recommend using SFTP for transferring files security. Visit below links to how to use SFTP.

1. Connect to FTP Server via Command Line

When you found your filename you can download it with. Ftp get filename et voila, the file will be downloaded to the directory you opened shell localy from. You cant download directorys, but you could navigate into your directory and download multiple e.g all files. Task: Download Multiple Files. Downloading all files from FTP/SFTP to the same local folder When downloading a remote directory tree, WinSCP recreates an equivalent tree locally. If you want to download all files (or all files matching a certain criteria) from the remote directory tree to the same local folder, it is more complicated.

To connect to any FTP server from windows open its command prompt and for Linux open terminal window. Now you have required IP or Hostname of FTP server and login credentials to connect with a specific user.

2. Upload Single File to FTP Server

To upload file on FTP server use put command from FTP prompt. First, navigate to the desired directory on the FTP server where to upload a file and use the following command. It will upload local system file c:filesfile1.txt to uploads directory on FTP server.

3. Download A Single File from FTP

To download the file from FTP server, we use get command. Using that command we can download one time at a time. To download any file from FTP server First login to your FTP server, navigate to the directory and use the following command to download

4. Upload Multiple Files to FTP

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To upload multiple files to FTP server use mput command. You can also specify wildcard characters to upload multiple files to the server at a time. First, navigate to the desired directory on the FTP server where to upload a file and use the following command. It will upload local system files with .txt extension in c:files directory to uploads directory on FTP server.

5. Download Multiple Files from FTP

To download multiple files from FTP server, we use mget command. Using that command we can download more than one file at a time. To download multiple files specify wildcard character for specifying directory name do download all files from the directory.

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General Info
I'm still in the process of learning C#. To help myself out, I'm trying to create a program that will automatically synchronise all of my local projects with a folder on my FTP server. This so that whether I'm at school or at home, I always have the same projects available to me.

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I know there are programs like Dropbox that already do this for me, but I figured creating something like that myself will teach me a lot along the way.

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The problem
My first step towards my goal was to just download all files, subdirectories and subfiles from my FTP server. I've managed to download all files from a directory with the code below. However, my code only lists the folder names and the files in the main directory. Subfolders and subfiles are never returned and never downloaded. Aside from that, the server returns a 550 error because I'm trying to download the folders as if they are files. I've been on this for 4+ hours now, but I just can't find anything on how to fix these problems and make it work. Therefor I'm hoping you guys will help me out :)

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The FtpWebRequest does not have any explicit support for recursive file operations (including downloads). You have to implement the recursion yourself:

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  • List the remote directory
  • Iterate the entries, downloading files and recursing into subdirectories (listing them again, etc.)

Tricky part is to identify files from subdirectories. There's no way to do that in a portable way with the FtpWebRequest. The FtpWebRequest unfortunately does not support the MLSD command, which is the only portable way to retrieve directory listing with file attributes in FTP protocol. See also Checking if object on FTP server is file or directory.

Your options are:

  • Do an operation on a file name that is certain to fail for file and succeeds for directories (or vice versa). I.e. you can try to download the 'name'. If that succeeds, it's a file, if that fails, it's a directory.
  • You may be lucky and in your specific case, you can tell a file from a directory by a file name (i.e. all your files have an extension, while subdirectories do not)
  • You use a long directory listing (LIST command = ListDirectoryDetails method) and try to parse a server-specific listing. Many FTP servers use *nix-style listing, where you identify a directory by the d at the very beginning of the entry. But many servers use a different format. The following example uses this approach (assuming the *nix format)

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Use the function like:

If you want to avoid troubles with parsing the server-specific directory listing formats, use a 3rd party library that supports the MLSD command and/or parsing various LIST listing formats; and recursive downloads.

For example with WinSCP .NET assembly you can download whole directory with a single call to the Session.GetFiles:

Internally, WinSCP uses the MLSD command, if supported by the server. If not, it uses the LIST command and supports dozens of different listing formats.

The Session.GetFiles method is recursive by default.

(I'm the author of WinSCP)

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