PowerShell Script to upload an entire folder to FTP
The loop (or even better a recursion) is the only way to do this natively in PowerShell (or .NET in general).
$source = "c:\source"$destination = "ftp://username:password@example.com/destination"$webclient = New-Object -TypeName System.Net.WebClient$files = Get-ChildItem $sourceforeach ($file in $files){ Write-Host "Uploading $file" $webclient.UploadFile("$destination/$file", $file.FullName)} $webclient.Dispose()Note that the above code does not recurse into subdirectories.
If you need a simpler solution, you have to use a 3rd party library.
For example with WinSCP .NET assembly:
Add-Type -Path "WinSCPnet.dll"$sessionOptions = New-Object WinSCP.SessionOptions$sessionOptions.ParseUrl("ftp://username:password@example.com/")$session = New-Object WinSCP.Session$session.Open($sessionOptions)$session.PutFiles("c:\source\*", "/destination/").Check()$session.Dispose()The above code does recurse.
See https://winscp.net/eng/docs/library_session_putfiles
(I'm the author of WinSCP)