FTP command line syntax

[Steve Suhre]

Thanks, I'll throw that into the pile too.




At 09:49 AM 9/28/2004, JohnsoBS at vicksburg.navy.mil wrote:
>Try ncFTP. GREAT commandline client with resume and more features..
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Steve Suhre [mailto:steve at Antero.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 5:42 PM
>To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>Subject: Re: FTP command line syntax
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>Thanks, wish I could say the same.... I'm running 4.6 on this machine. The
>man pages in 4.6 give the syntax so I assumed it would work. I tried
>"fetch" also and got a parsing error. I'll try grabbing a newer version of
>ftp and/or fetch and see if that works.
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>At 09:12 AM 9/28/2004, you wrote:
> >In the last episode (Sep 28), Steve Suhre said:
> > > I need to set up a cron job that will fetch a file using ftp and a
> > > password. I've tried several versions of the commands as described in
> > > the man page and the Auto-Fetch section but I'm getting an error that
> > > makes me think I'm missing something...
> > >
> > > If I use the suggested syntax:
> > >
> > > ftp ftp://user:password@host/path
> > >
> > > I get:                Can't locate or login to host `user'
> >
> >Works for me:
> >
> >   $ ftp ftp://doesnt:exist@ftp.netscape.com/path
> >   Connected to ftp.gftp.netscape.com.
> >   220-35
> >   220 ftpnscp.newaol.com FTP server (SunOS 5.8) ready.
> >   331 Password required for doesnt.
> >   530 Login incorrect.
> >   ftp: Login failed.
> >   ftp: Can't connect or login to host `ftp.netscape.com'
> >   221 Goodbye.
> >   $
> >
> >What version of FreeBSD are you running?
> >
> >--
> >         Dan Nelson
> >         dnelson at allantgroup.com
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Steve Suhre
Antero web technologies
719.634.8161
steve at Antero.com