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

user user-name [password] [account]

Identify yourself to the remote FTP server. If the password is not specified and the server requires it, ftp will prompt the user for it (after disabling local echo). If an account field is not specified, and the FTP server requires it, the user will be prompted for it. If an account field is speci- fied, an account command will be relayed to the remote server after the login sequence is completed if the remote server did not require it for logging in. Unless ftp is invoked with ``auto-login'' disabled, this process is done automati- cally on initial connection to the FTP server.


! [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

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