FTP

Revision as of 15:20, 5 May 2006

File Transer Protocol. In the halcyon days of early unix systems, an easy and reliable way to transfer files from one system to another. These days, you'll want something secure that doesn't send your login/password in cleartext -- which ftp, like telnet, does -- and you'll probably want to use something like sftp.

Common flags

-a don't login, use anonymous login
-A force active mode
-i no interactive prompts
-p force passive mode
-P change the port to this
-v verbose