find xargs and curl give an error with -C- option

This command works fine

find ~/mypath -name *.fstq -print|xargs curl -u sdd:dsdsd ftp://ftp.dsdd.nsdh.com/sdsds/ -T

but when I add

find ~/mypath -name *.fstq -print|xargs curl -C- -u sdd:dsdsd ftp://ftp.dsdd.nsdh.com/sdsds/ -T

I get an error message

curl: (25) Failed FTP upload: 451
curl: (3) <url> malformed
curl: (3) <url> malformed
curl: (3) <url> malformed

any ideas how I can use resume (-C-) option with this pipe?

biomed

Posted 2011-09-15T22:00:02.723

Reputation: 195

1Can you add an "echo" between the | and xargs, to see what command it's actually running? – ed. – 2011-09-16T14:36:34.473

Answers

Isn't there a space after the -C, like "-C -"?

e40

Posted 2011-09-15T22:00:02.723

Reputation: 1 143

You are right, I tried using the space after but it produced the same error regardless of the fact. – biomed – 2011-09-16T02:19:58.087

You are probably uploading fastq files for publishing. I seem to remember that there are certain restrictions to the FTP servers (maybe they do not allow reading uploaded files and thus the SIZE command will fail). So before you blame the command try uploading to a FTP server you have full control over. – Ole Tange – 2011-09-20T17:49:28.107