Question

With only ftp commands, how to move all files in a directory to another directory?

I don’t know the names of the files, only the directory where they are. For example I want to move all files in base_dir

base_dir/file1
base_dir/file2
base_dir/destination_dir/

to a directory inside base_dir:

base_dir/destination_dir/file1
base_dir/destination_dir/file2

Answer 1

I think this should do the trick:

RNFR base_dir
RNTO base_dir_temp

MKD base_dir

RNFR base_dir_temp
RNTO base_dir/destination_dir