Monday 10 December 2007

FtpCrawl

No, not the stroke that Duncan Goodhew never learned but a utility I wrote to take some of the aggravation out of using a cheap hosting company with no proper remote access other than through a slow and clunky control panel. I put all sorts of stuff up there and then forget where. FTP itself doesn't support searching in the protocol so we have to do it in software. FtpCrawl simply burrows down listing all files, starting from a given directory. It's as bare as that and the minimal documentation (!) can be seen from running the Java jar without arguments as
java -jar ftpcrawl.jar
The output can be piped through grep or if you're unlucky enough, through Windows find, although I think you might find grep on some Windows systems. You can get it here. It's only a näive domestic utility but I think you'll be amused by its recursion.

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