ftp.1 (2010 09)

f
ftp(1) ftp(1)
struct which defaults to file.
COMMANDS
ftp supports the following commands. Command arguments with embedded spaces must be enclosed in
quotes (for example, "argument with embedded spaces").
![ command [ args ]]
Invoke a shell on the local host. The
SHELL environment variable specifies which shell pro-
gram to invoke.
ftp invokes /usr/bin/sh if
SHELL is undefined. If command is
specified, the shell executes it and returns to
ftp. Otherwise, an interactive shell is invoked.
When the shell terminates, it returns to
ftp.
$ macro-name [ args ]
Execute the macro macro-name that was defined with the
macdef command. Arguments are
passed to the macro unglobbed.
account [ passwd ]
Supply a supplemental password required by a remote system for access to resources once a
login has been successfully completed. If no argument is included, the user is prompted for an
account password in a non-echoing input mode.
append local-file [ remote-file ]
Copy local-file to the end of remote-file.Ifremote-file is left unspecified, the local file name is
used in naming the remote file after being altered by any ntrans or nmap setting.
ascii Set the file transfer type to network ASCII. This is the default type.
bell Sound a bell after each file transfer completes.
binary Set the file transfer type to binary.
bye Close the connection to the server host if a connection was open, and exit. Typing an end-of-
file (EOF) character also terminates and exits the session.
case Toggle remote computer file name case mapping during mget
commands. When case is on
(the default is off), remote computer file names with all letters in uppercase are written in the
local directory with the letters mapped to lowercase.
cd remote-directory
Set the working directory on the server host to remote-directory.
cdup Set the working directory on the server host to the parent of the current remote working direc-
tory.
chmod mode file-name
Change the permission modes of the file file-name on the remote system to mode.
close Terminate the connection to the server host. The
close command does not exit ftp. Any
defined macros are erased.
cr Toggle carriage return stripping during ascii type file retrieval. Records are denoted by a
carriage-return/line-feed sequence during ascii type file transfer. When cr
is on (the
default), carriage returns are stripped from this sequence to conform with the UNIX single
line-feed record delimiter. Records on non-UNIX remote systems may contain single line-
feeds; when an
ascii type transfer is made, these line-feeds can be distinguished from a
record delimiter only when cr is off.
delete remote-file
Delete remote-file. The remote-file can be an empty directory. No globbing is done.
dir [ remote-directory ][local-file ]
Write a remote-directory listing to standard output or optionally to local-file . If neither
remote-directory nor local-file is specified, list the remote working directory to standard out-
put. If interactive prompting is on, ftp prompts the user to verify that the last argument is
indeed the target file for dir output. Globbing characters are always expanded.
disconnect
A synonym for close.
longaddr
Toggle the use of the LPRT/LPSV commands for data connection in the IPv6 environment. By
default, the EPRT/EPSV commands are used in the IPv6 environment. In the IPv4
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