Posted by Leonard Blaisdell on 06/14/48 11:56

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<doraymeRidThis-C973E0.09390915082006@news-vip.optusnet.com.au>,
dorayme <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> wrote:

> A bloke on a Mac group said:
>
> "Most FTP servers do not provide this capability. If you can log
> into a shell on the server (via ssh), you can do it this way:
>
> cd /path/to/directory/
> mv * ../..
> "

I missed that post. I'd change that to:
cd /path/to/target_directory
mv myfile1 myfile2 myfile3 (and so forth) ../destination_directory
as I seem to understand that you want to move selected items from a
directory to one level above.
Of course (and so forth) could be substituted in my text above as an
ellipsis which would incorporate far too many dots. A graphical ftp
client is much easier if you don't love the command line in terminal.
I believe (and could be wrong) that the ftp server that you have
username-password access to certainly ought to allow you to shift files
between directories within the space you paid for on that server.
Above target_directory is the directory you want to move files from.
destination_directory is the directory you want to move files to.
Oh, and directory equals folder in the Mac world.

leo

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