Re: A more elegant file delete via AppleScript and FTP?
Re: A more elegant file delete via AppleScript and FTP?
- Subject: Re: A more elegant file delete via AppleScript and FTP?
- From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 09:03:25 -0400
On 9/19/06, Jeremy <email@hidden> wrote:
In attempting to remove temporary files created on my webserver by a
script, I have been struggling with the inelegance of my solution. I
have a username with an @ in it so I'm not sure if I can create one of
the more elegant shell scripts to remove the files and I do not have
direct terminal access to the server (nor would I want the script to
have it as it will be distributed to my family members).
My first question is, why not do the deletion on the web server
itself? Either run a script periodically, or maybe have the same
script that creates them look for old ones and delete them, or write a
CGI that deletes them that you can then run by pointing your web
browser at it...
If you must use FTP, then there are still approximately five hundred
better ways to do it than launching and sending keystrokes to
Terminal. :) Here's a variant on Takaaki's solution:
do shell script "echo -e \"cd temporarydirectory\\nprompt off\\nmdel *.*\" |
ftp ftp://email@hidden:email@hidden";
Note that even with the @ in the username, you can still use an ftp://
URL; you just need to replace the @ with its URL-encoded equivalent
@.
tell application "Terminal"
activate window
do script "ncftp -u email@hidden -p password ftp.mydomain.com" in
window 1
delay 10
tell application "System Events"
tell process "Terminal"
set frontmost to true
keystroke "cd temporarydirectory" & return & "rm *.*" & return &
"quit" & return & "n" & return
end tell
end tell
delay 10
quit
end tell
Is there a more straightforward solution than what I have above?
Thanks,
Jeremy
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