Internet utilities
Format
ftp remote-computer
Summary
ftp is the standard ftp client that comes with linux. I
recommend installing something better (like ncftp). But
I'll include it here because it's a standard.. It's always
there.. Ftp is interactive once it's connected to a host.
Interactive commands
!
escape to a shell on you local system. Use ^D to return
to ftp.
binary set the file transfer type
to binary (you must do this if the files you want to download
are non ASCII)
cd, change
directory
close, close the connection but
not ftp
dir/ls, list the files in
the current directory
get
remote-file [local-file], download remote-file into local
if specified.
mget remote-file-list,
Allows you to get multiple files (and directories) from
the host. You can use wildcards
put
local-file, puts local-file to the current directory on
the host
mput local-file-list,
Same as mget only the other way.
help, display a list
of available commands
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