Download directory content from FTP

[mhed]

Hi
I'm workin on a LabVIEW application which need to interface with an FTP server to get and to put files.
Moreover, i need to download the entire content of a given directory. This directory is defined by user, so it's name and it's content are not fixed.

For example, this directory can contain several files and/or several sub-directories (which can contain several files and/or several sub-directories, etc.).

Is there a VI in Labview or through the LVTN which can do this operation?
Or need i to develop it myself?

Thanks.

[AdrienMrgn]

Hi,

You might find some answers in thoses documents.

http://www.ni.com/example/29269/en/

http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/3D985C3C08C12D0B862574BB005A7684

Have a nice day.

Adrien

[Mancho00]

FTP Directory Listing and FTP Get Multiple Files should get you what you want.

[mhed]

@Mancho00

Not exactly.

FTP Listing Vi  lists only the files and directory in the current directory. Maybe i'm wrong, but it is not recursive.

@adrienmngr

Your function seems to work.

But, if i can, i prefer to not use system exec.

[Mancho00]

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@mhed wrote:

@Mancho00

Not exactly.

FTP Listing Vi  lists only the files and directory in the current directory. Maybe i'm wrong, but it is not recursive.

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That's true.  Since you can get directory information, you can recurse it yourself.

[mhed]

Of course, i'd the same idea.

Howerver, for me it is hard to believe that no one before me had to do this type of operation in their project.

Or maybe there is, but no one publish his solution.

[Mancho00 · Accepted solution]

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@mhed wrote:

Of course, i'd the same idea.

Howerver, for me it is hard to believe that no one before me had to do this type of operation in their project.

Or maybe there is, but no one publish his solution.

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I'm positive many have done it.  I've done it myself, though not in LabVIEW.  There's nothing particularly novel about this feature such that a code example is needed.  If you know how to do recursion (for which there are many examples), and you know how the FTP functions work, it shouldn't be much work to get it going.

[mhed]

Ok.

I'll try this method.