How to create directories recursively in curl or WebDav?

Question

I want to upload files to my nextcloud server. The problem is that I got an error. The first curl command should create the directory.

curl -u "$USER":"$PW" -X MKCOL "https://MYSERVER/remote.php/dav/files/$USER/$MANY_DIRECTORIES"
curl -u "$USER":"$PW" -T "$FILE" "https://MYSERVER/remote.php/dav/files/$USER/$MANY_DIRECTORIES/$FILE"

If $MANY_DIRECTORIES contains just one directory it works. But if this variable contains e.g. /root/deep/deeper and deep doesn't exist I got this error:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<d:error xmlns:d="DAV:" xmlns:s="http://sabredav.org/ns">
  <s:exception>Sabre\DAV\Exception\Conflict</s:exception>
  <s:message>Parent node does not exist</s:message>
</d:error>

The second command throws this error:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<d:error xmlns:d="DAV:" xmlns:s="http://sabredav.org/ns">
  <s:exception>Sabre\DAV\Exception\NotFound</s:exception>
  <s:message>File with name //test could not be located</s:message>
</d:error>

So how can I create the directories recursive to upload the file?

Thanks.

Well, you create them one-by-one. – Julian Reschke Mar 22 '17 at 06:41 — Julian Reschke, Mar 22 '17 at 06:41
@JulianReschke: Thanks. I'll go through a loop. – cy221 Mar 22 '17 at 14:59 — cy221, Mar 22 '17 at 14:59

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 22 '17 at 15:39

There is no option to create recursive directories, so I split the variable into an array and create the directories one by one.

IFS='/' read -r -a array <<<"$2"
for el in "${array[@]}"
do
        TEMP=$TEMP/$el
        curl -u "$USER:$PW" \
        -X MKCOL \
        "https://MYSERVER/remote.php/dav/files/$USER$TEMP"
done

curl -u "$USER:$PW" \
         -T "$1" "https://MYSERVER/remote.php/dav/files/$USER/$2/$1"

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 07 '22 at 10:53

In cy221's answer I would replace the first lines with

tree=$(find .  -mindepth 1 -type d | sed 's!^./!!')
for el in $tree; do 
    #etc.
done

This will of course not work for directories with spaces in it. (sorry for using an answer instead of a comment, I couldn't get code formatting to work in a 'mere' comment).

score -1 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 07 '20 at 10:15

-1

There's no method for that behaviour!

APROACH:

You need to create your own recursive function, that iterate over the directories path and create them one by one, like cy221 ilustrate in the answer above.

answered Oct 07 '20 at 10:15

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