HP-UX Reference (11i v1 05/09) - 1 User Commands A-M (vol 1)

ftp(1) ftp(1)

Some useful examples of this mechanism are:

ls . "| more"

The above command lists the ﬁles in the current directory page by page.

put "| tail -20 loc_file" rem_file

This command copies the last twenty lines of the local ﬁle "loc_ﬁle" to the remote system as "rem_ﬁle".

• Otherwise, if globbing is enabled, ftp

expands local ﬁle names according to the rules used by the C

shell (see csh(1)); see the

glob command, below. If the

ftp command expects a single local ﬁle (e.g.,

put), only the ﬁrst ﬁlename generated by the globbing operation is used.

• For mget commands and get

commands with unspeciﬁed local ﬁle names, the local ﬁlename is named

the same as the remote ﬁlename, which may be altered by a

case, ntrans,or nmap setting. The

resulting ﬁlename may then be altered if

runique is on.

• For

mput commands and

put commands with unspeciﬁed remote ﬁle names, the remote ﬁlename is

named the same as the local ﬁlename, which may be altered by a

ntrans or nmap setting. The

resulting ﬁlename may then be altered by the remote server if

sunique is on.

WARNINGS

Correct execution of many commands depends upon proper behavior by the remote server.

DIAGNOSTICS

Error! could not retrieve authentication type.

Please notify sys admin.

There are two authentication mechanisms used by

ftp. One authentication mechanism is based on

Kerberos and the other is not. The type of authentication mechanism is obtained from a system ﬁle

which is updated by inetsvcs_sec(1M). If the system ﬁle does not contain known authentication types,

the above error is displayed.

AUTHOR

ftp was developed by the University of California, Berkeley.