In FTP, how do I copy a remote file to other directories

Question

Using FTP commands I want to upload a large file once and then copy that file to many directories on the remote FTP server. All the copy commands seems to relate to copying from local to remote or the other way around.

Is there an FTP command to copy remote to remote?

Answer 1

are you trying to move the file? if yes, you can do it using rename command to move the file, as for copy i guess you still have to do the the get,send from local-remote way.

as for move command should be something like this

rename /oldpath/file2move.txt /newpath/file2move.txt

Basically just rename your file path that is infront of the file that you wish to move.

Answer 2

As far as I know, there is no such command available in FTP protocol. There are some extensions to SFTP protocol to do this (and, having SSH access, you can issue cp commands), but SFTP is not an FTP.