Question

I am working on a Bash script (see below) that recursively searches through directories on a SAN for files with a specific file name that is newer than 4 hours. Then copies all these files to a specific FTP Location and email to say the copy has been completed. The script works fine except that it only copies files on the top level directory. The error I am getting on the lower directories is this:

#

remote: -v
ftp: local: -v: No such file or directory
local: ./Test01/test02/folder02_01_1200_m30.mp4 remote: ./Test01/test02/folder02_01_1200_m30.mp4
229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||45127|)
550 ./Test01/test02/folder02_01_1200_m30.mp4: File does not exist. (2)
221 Goodbye.

#

Here is the Script

#!/bin/bash
#The location from where the script should search
GSPORIGIN='/Volumes/folder01/folder02'

#File Names to be moved
FILE1='*1200_m30.mp4'

#FTP Details
HOST='xxxx.upload.com'
USER='xxxxxxx'
PASSWD='xxxxxxxxxxxx'
#the destination directory on the FTP
DESTDIR="/8619/_!/TEST"


# Go to the location from where the search should start 
cd $GSPORIGIN
for file in `find . -type f -name "*1200_m30.mp4" -mmin -240`
do 
echo $file
if [ -f $file ] ; then
ftp -n -v $HOST << EOT
ascii
user $USER $PASSWD
prompt
cd $DESTDIR
mput -v $file
EOT
echo "$file has been copied to FTP" | mail -s "$file has been copied to FTP in Directory $DESTDIR"  [e-mail]; 
else exit 1
fi
done

Answer 1

To do what you’re doing, you’ll have to recreate the directories on the destination FTP.
use the basename/dirname commmands and a mkdir command like this :

for file in `find . -type f -name "*1200_m30.mp4" -mmin -240`
do 
echo $file
if [ -f $file ] ; then

destdirname=`dirname "$file"`

ftp -n -v $HOST << EOT
ascii
user $USER $PASSWD
prompt
cd $DESTDIR
mkdir $destdirname 
mput -v $file
EOT
echo "$file has been copied to FTP" | mail -s "$file has been copied to FTP in Directory $DESTDIR"  [e-mail]; 
else exit 1
fi