Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 13:37:48 -0800 (PST) From: Peter Johnson <tam@hiddenrock.com> To: Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> Cc: joe <joe@popidols.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FTP (auto-fetch) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011041336520.9960-100000@hiddenrock.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011041522340.27749-100000@ren.sasknow.com>
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If you install ncftp from the ports, you should get ncftpput and ncftpget which are command-line variations of the two commands, very useful for scripts and batch processing. Pete On Sat, 4 Nov 2000, Ryan Thompson wrote: > joe wrote to freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG: > > > Dear sir/Madam > > > > I've been trying to use the ftp (auto-fetch) command: > > ftp ftp://[user:password@]host[:port]/file[/] > > > > As I found, the default file transferring operation of this > > instruction is eqivalant to a ftp's "get" command, but actually I want > > this command to perform a ftp's "put" command and do it automatically. > > Therefor, are there any options or parameters I have to add to make it > > works? > > Actually, ftp(1) doesn't support this sort of command line operation. > Some time ago (FreeBSD 2.2.x, I think), I patched ftp(1) to support a put > if two arguments were given. (Worked for single files). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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