6.2.10 The put command: send a file to the server

To upload a file to the server from your local PC, you use the put command.

In its simplest form, you just use this with a file name:

put myfile.dat

If you want to store the file remotely under a different name, specify the remote file name after the local one:

put myfile.dat newname.dat

This will send the local file called myfile.dat, but will store it on the server under the name newname.dat.

To send an entire directory recursively, you can use the -r option:

put -r mydir
put -r mydir newname

(If you want to send a file whose name starts with a hyphen, you may have to use the -- special argument, which stops put from interpreting anything as a switch after it. For example, ‘put -- -silly-name-’.)