upload / download folders

[helenhuangmath]

Hi dropbox team,
Does dbxcli support folder uploading or downloading now? What command should I use for folder operation? Thank you!

[conphi]

dbxcli ls -l "path/to/folder/to/download"|awk -F"ago" '{print $2}'|sed -e 's/^[[:space:]]*//' -e 's/[[:space:]]*$//'|xargs -I{} dbxcli get {} .

[lumosideas]

dbxcli ls -l "path/to/folder/to/download"|awk -F"ago" '{print $2}'|sed -e 's/^[[:space:]]*//' -e 's/[[:space:]]*$//'|xargs -I{} dbxcli get {} .

Hi, this command is to download a directory, what about upload put a full directory to dropbox?

Thank you

[lpares12]

@lumosideas did you manage to do it?

[lumosideas]

Hi, no, I have not receive answers to my question so I decide to use this script:

https://github.com/andreafabrizi/Dropbox-Uploader

However, I'm looking forward for an answer here.

[tashrifbillah]

dbxcli ls -l "path/to/folder/to/download"|awk -F"ago" '{print $2}'|sed -e 's/^[[:space:]]*//' -e 's/[[:space:]]*$//'|xargs -I{} dbxcli get {} .

This command won't work for two-level deep folders.
cc @conphi

[jmgirard]

In case anyone wants to adapt this to Powershell on windows:

./dbxcli ls -l "/path/to/folder/to/download" | ForEach-Object { $_ -split 'ago' | Select-Object -Index 1 } | ForEach-Object { $_.Trim() } | ForEach-Object { ./dbxcli get $_ . }

1. Lists files in the specified directory using ./dbxcli ls -l.
2. For each line of the output, splits the line at the string 'ago' and selects the second part (Select-Object -Index 1).
3. Trims leading and trailing whitespaces from each result.
4. Calls ./dbxcli get for each result.

[gprabaha]

Dropbox does not let you compress and download large files through the web browser, and the desktop client cannot be used practically to sync up with an external hard drive. I recently had to write a bash script using dbxcli which downloads directories and subdirectories and recreates the directory structure locally. Seemed relevant to this conversation

#!/bin/bash

# Function to create a directory if it doesn't exist
ensure_directory() {
  local path="$1"
  if [ ! -d "$path" ]; then
    mkdir -p "$path"
  fi
}

# Function to download files and replicate directory structure
download_files() {
  local path="$1"
  local destination="$2"
  local top_name="${path##*/}"
  local local_dest_path="$destination/$top_name"
  local depth="$3"
  local tabs=""
  for ((i=0; i<depth; i++)); do
    tabs+="    "
  done

  # Check if the item is not a file (does not contain a dot in the filename)
  if [[ "$path" != *.* ]]; then
    ensure_directory "$local_dest_path"
    echo -e "${tabs}Folder: $top_name"

    # Get the total number of items in the directory without leading whitespaces
    local total_items=$(dbxcli ls -l "$path" 2>/dev/null | awk 'NR>1 {print $NF}' | wc -l | awk '{$1=$1};1')
    local current_item=1
    tabs+="    "
    # Iterate over items in the directory
    dbxcli ls -l "$path" | awk 'NR>1 {print $NF}' | while read -r item; do
      local local_name="${item##*/}"
      echo -e "${tabs}Item $current_item of $total_items"
      local new_depth=$((depth+1))
      download_files "$item" "$local_dest_path" "$new_depth"
      ((current_item++))
    done
  else
    # If it's a file (contains a dot), use dbxcli get (output silenced)
    echo -e "${tabs}Downloading: $top_name"
    dbxcli get "$path" "$local_dest_path" > /dev/null 2>&1
  fi
}

# Download files and replicate directory structure
download_files "$1" "$2" "$3"

echo "Download completed."