Open terminal and run the following command to connect to your FTP server. We will use ftp command for this purpose which is already installed by default in almost all Linux distributions. If your FTP runs on a subdomain like ftp. In both the above cases, you will be prompted to enter password for your FTP username and password.
After successful authentication, you will see the ftp prompt as shown below. You will be logged into your home directory. Next, navigate to the folder where you want to upload your file. Use put command to upload file from your local machine, followed by file location. The following command will upload a single file to your FTP folder.
Now, we can use the command 'get' command to download a file, the usage is:. The file will be downloaded to the directory previously set with the 'lcd ' command. To download several files we can use wildcards. In this example, I will download all files with the. We can upload files that are in the local directory where we made the FTP connection. To upload a file, we can use 'put ' command. Once we have done the FTP work, we should close the connection for security reasons.
There are three commands that we can use to close the connection:. If you need some additional help, once you are connected to the FTP server, type 'help' and this will show you all the available FTP commands. FTP is not secure, as it transmits usernames and passwords in plaint text. Anyone using a network sniffer can discover them. Seems as if you haven't heard of FTPS yet. You might want to cover the ftp-ssl command as well, it's great for connecting to FTPS sites.
How do you login if your usrname is an email address? For example "ftp [email protected] ftp. Once ftp sees the it assumes the rest is the server address. Before we issue mput command, we use lcd command to navigate to our required local folder.
If you want to download single file from FTP, use get command. Navigate to the folder from where you want to download your file, and issue get command along with filename,.
If you want to download multiple files from FTP, use mget command to download them along with wildcard characters to specify the filenames. Navigate to the folder from where you want to download files. The following command will download all. FTP operations are very common when you are working in a software development team and the above commands will help you easily move files between your local machine and FTP server. The benefit of using above commands is that you may also embed these commands in shell scripts to automate them, or schedule them as cron jobs to regularly run them.
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