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LFTP, command line FTP and more that works

Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on July 20, 2011 - 6:04am
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lftp is a command-line FTP (and more) client that actually works.

lftp -u username,p4ssw0rd ftp.example.com

And once in:

mirror directoryname

A key nice thing that lftp provides is completion of directory and file names when you hit tab. It will take it a moment to get the remote directory listing but then it will tab autocomplete just like the shell on your local computer.

And you'll get directoryname in whatever directory you were in when you entered lftp. (You can change this from within the lftp prompt with ! cd (and also ! mkdir), i believe.

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lftp recursive get download multiple files with command-line FTP

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