FTP Commands

Learn more about FTP from the Computer Dictionary of Information Technology
This is a list of all available ftp commands that can be used for file transfers using the file transfer protocol

glob

Toggle filename expansion for mdelete, mget and mput. If globbing is turned off with glob, the file name arguments are taken literally and not expanded. Globbing for mput is done as in csh(1). For mdelete and mget, each remote file name is expanded separately on the remote machine and the lists are not merged. Expansion of a directory name is likely to be different from expansion of the name of an ordinary file: the exact result depends on the foreign operating system and ftp server, and can be previewed by doing `mls remote-files -' Note: mget and mput are not meant to transfer entire directo- ry subtrees of files. That can be done by transferring a tar(1) archive of the subtree (in binary mode).


! [command [args]]
$ macro-name [args]
account [passwd]
append local-file [remote-file]
ascii
bell
binary
bye
case
cd remote-directory
cdup
chmod mode file-name
close
cr
debug [debug-value]
delete remote-file
dir [remote-directory] [local-file]
disconnect
form format
get remote-file [local-file]
glob
hash
help [command]
idle [seconds]
lcd [directory]
ls [remote-directory] [local-file]
mdelete [remote-files]
mdir remote-files local-file
mget remote-files
mkdir directory-name
mls remote-files local-file
mode [mode-name]
modtime file-name
mput local-files
newer file-name [local-file]
nlist [remote-directory] [local-file]
ntrans [inchars [outchars]]
open host [port]
prompt
proxy ftp-command
put local-file [remote-file]
pwd
quit
quote arg1 arg2 ...
recv remote-file [local-file]
reget remote-file [local-file]
remotehelp [command-name]
remotestatus [file-name]
rename [from] [to]
reset
restart marker
rmdir directory-name
runique
send local-file [remote-file]
sendport
site arg1 arg2 ...
size file-name
status
struct [struct-name]
sunique
system
tenex
trace
type [type-name]
umask [newmask]
user user-name [password] [account]
verbose

FTP Commands

provided by Buster Collings (see also: website color palette picker)