Exclude .svn folders from getting uploaded in wput

Question

I am writing a script to automatically upload a directory with many sub directories and files using wput

Is it possible to ignore certain folders like .svn folders from getting uploaded while using wput?

Answer 1

A careful look into the man pages gave me the following solution which works perfectly.

find . ! -type d | grep -v \.svn | wput ftp://user:password*@ftp.example.com/ -i -

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