CoreFTP

Those who have anything to do with a website know that FTP is an indespensible tool. It is the bread and butter of web development and maintenance.

I have had a problem for a long time with the FTP clients I was using – I couldn’t selectively and recursively upload something. To explain that, let me walk you through my situation. I use a software to create the web album that is on my website. This software creates small .htm files and big .jpg files. Now if I move my folders around, all that needs to be updated are the small .htm files and the software (jAlbum) is smart about this as it only processes the .htm files and gets the job done quickly.

The problem is, how do I only upload only .htm files from my computer to my website? The solution after a long search process turns out to be an FTP client called CoreFTP. This software lets me recursively upload selective files. What that means is that I can say something like ‘upload all .htm files in this folder and subfolders’ in one command to this program and this will take care of the rest. You can check it out here.

Although I’ve had some issues with reliability, I’m not too sure if my network is at fault or the program. In any case, this is the closest I’ve come in my quest for a solution to my problem.

PS: The -recurse switch is not well documented but is an available option to upload/download recursively.