Upload all files in a folder to FTP

This is the second old-school post this week. Hey, I’m clearing the decks of some odd stuff I had to do. Today, it’s uploading all the files in a folder (but not sub-folders) to an FTP endpoint. The script only does this if the files have been updated in the past 24 hours.

There’s not much to explain here. It’s a simple System.Net.WebClient doing the work, with a credential added for the username and password. The source folder is searched for non-directory entries using Get-ChildItem and passing them into Where-Object to filter by last write time. Each match is moved up to the FTP folder with the same name.

$
source
 
=
 
'
../src
'
$
server
 
=
 
'
ftp://0.0.0.0
'
$
date
 
=
 
(
Get-date
)
.AddDays
(
-1
)
Write-Host
 
$
date
# Create a web client with credentials
$
webclient
 
=
 
New-Object
 System.Net.WebClient 
$
webclient.Credentials
 
=
 
New-Object
 System.Net.NetworkCredential
(
'
MyUserName
'
,
'
MyPassword
'
)
  
# Find matching files (only files, not folders) | then filter by last write time
$
files
 
=
 
Get-ChildItem
 
$
source
 
-
Attributes 
!
Directory 
|
 
Where-Object
 
{
 
$
_
.LastWriteTime
 
-ge
 
$
date
 
}
# Upload 'em all
foreach
 
(
$
file
 
in
 
$
files
)
{
    
$
path
 
=
 
"
$
server
/www/destinationfolder/
$
file
"
    
Write-Host
 
$
file.FullName
 
$
path
    
$
webclient.UploadFile
(
$
path
,
 
$
file.FullName
)
}
 
$
webclient.Dispose
()