Newbie Question: "Batch PDF Uploads"

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Bobby
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Newbie Question: "Batch PDF Uploads"

Hello,

I usually upload to my server from the command line, and Dreamweaver infrequently.

We have a new application to upload PDFs. The volume could grow to uploading about 250 to 500 PDFs daily.

Do you have a capability in your WinSCP client which enables me to upload the PDFs as a batch. Let's say I've got 250 PDFs in folder Origin1 on my C: drive [MS XP Home], and want to upload them to folder Destination1 on my server [FreeBSD].

Name001.pdf
Name002.pdf
Name003.pdf
:
Name250.pdf

Rather than uploading 250 times from the command line - ftp>put "Name001.pdf" through to ftp>put "Name250.pdf" – I'd like to be able to somehow use WinSCP and say "upload contents from Origin1 to Destination1." Then I could leave it, and work on something else.

If this is possible, how does the client deal with server timeouts?

Thank you for any replies,

Bobby

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Re: Newbie Question: "Batch PDF Uploads"

You can do "put *.pdf" (to upload all PDF files from current directory) or "put X:\directory\" (to upload all files from specified directory). See examples in "help put".

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Re: Newbie Question: "Batch PDF Uploads"

Hello,

Thank you for your reply.

There is a revision to our process based on new information from our supplier - as follows:

The requirement is now to upload each PDF to its own folder. For example, the following PDFs:

Name001.pdf
Name002.pdf
Name003.pdf
:
Name250.pdf

Will be uploaded one PDF per folder, to the folders:

Destination1
Destination2
Destination3
:
Destination250

We do not have a preference to continue uploading from the command line.

Does your FTP client have the ability – either as a standard feature/function or via automation – to achieve the following, or similar, process?

For X=1, 250
Upload file NameX.pdf to folder DestinationX
Continue if X < = 250

Regards,

Bobby

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Re: Newbie Question: "Batch PDF Uploads"

Take any scripting language (Perl, PHP, etc.) and make script that generates upload script for WinSCP.

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