FTP uploads with curl - monitoring progress - any ideas?

[Andre Garzia]

Ken,

can you pipe and forget to a file and keep reading the text file from rev.

curl bla bla bla > progress.txt

right?

On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Ken Ray <kray at sonsothunder.com> wrote:

> I have some large files (100MB +) that I need to FTP to a customer's
> server.
> I have tried to use libURL to do the uploading, but I get odd
> results/random
> timeouts/errant status messages when the file I'm uploading is over 40MB.
> I've tried many different workarounds to this, but none have been
> consistent/acceptable so for this project I'm seeing if I can use curl.
>
> The pain is that there doesn't seem to be a way to retrieve the progress of
> an FTP upload so I can display a custom upload box. If I redirect it to
> dev/null, I get control back after the upload starts, but I can't get any
> progress data:
>
>   curl -T filePath -u user:pass serverAdress > /dev/null 2>&1 &
>
> If I redirect to stdin, it's blocking and I only get anything when the
> upload is complete:
>
>   curl -T filePath -u user:pass serverAdress > stdin
>
> I've also tried:
>
>   curl -T filePath -u user:pass serverAdress > stdin &
>   curl -T filePath -u user:pass serverAdress > stdin 2>&1 &
>
> Is there any way to make a non-blocking call to curl, but then to get back
> the progress text that would normally be displayed in the Terminal?
>
> Any help would be appreciated...
>
> Ken Ray
> Sons of Thunder Software, Inc.
> Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
> Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
>
>
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