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Basic

§ 11.B.1: ftp: Help and Navigation

Once you've set up an ftp connection, you can use a variety of subcommands to help get your file transfer right. To see a list of the available subcommands (while in an ftp session), enter ? followed by a return:

Try it now. You should get a response like: 

Commands may be abbreviated.  Commands are:

!               debug           mget            pwd             site
$               dir             mkdir           quit            size
account         disconnect      mls             quote           status
append          form            mode            recv            struct
ascii           get             modtime         remotehelp      sunique
bell            glob            mput            rstatus         system
binary          hash            nmap            rhelp           tenex
bye             help            nlist           rename          trace
case            image           ntrans          reget           type
cd              lcd             open            restart         user
cdup            ls              prompt          reset           verbose
close           macdef          proxy           rmdir           ?
cr              mdelete         sendport        runique
delete          mdir            put             send

Some of these subcommands are the familiar ones you learned about in Managing Files and Directories. So, as usual, you use the cd and ls subcommands to move around and see what's there.

To get more information about a particular subcommand, such as get, ask for help:

To gain some experience, after checking where we are, we create a backup directory on ucs and cd to it:

Now let's get into that directory and check if we made it: The command lcd performs a change of directories on the local machine (this avoids having to leave ftp and then returning to it). We'll be transferring files from the public-html directory first, so change directories on the local (the Department cluster) to public-html: We are now ready to transfer files.
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Comments and questions to Dr. Elias N. Houstis at enh@cs.purdue.edu.