Accessible ftp

[Linux for blind general discussion]

Hi Didier and all,

You are correct, lftp is very good.

It, however is a pain to figure out how to use, but once you got the 
hang of it, it works very well.

Thanks for that one.

Warm regards,

Brandt Steenkamp

Sent using Thunderbird from the Slint laptop

On 2022/05/30 19:24, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> Hi Brandt,
>
> lftp, sftp (CLI) gftp (GUI by default but the is also gftp-txt that I never
> used) can do ftp over ssh and are instaklled bu default in Slint.
>
> lftp and sftp have good man pages
>
> lftp is amazing: to mirror a website just type:
> lftp -c "mirror <url>"
>
> Cheers,
>
> Didier
>
>
> Le 30/05/2022 à 19:10, Linux for blind general discussion a écrit :
>> Ok, sorry, I was probably not as clear as I should have been. One of the sites I
>> have to connect to asks for ftp over tls, and none of the 4 sites has standard
>> port 21 as the connection default.
>>
>> I know I could probably use filezilla on the GUI, but I'd prefer the CLI.
>>
>> Warm regards,
>>
>> Brandt Steenkamp
>>
>> Sent using Thunderbird from the Slint laptop
>>
>> On 2022/05/30 18:49, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
>>> Tim here.  I've always just used the command-line client (since the
>>> late 80s or early 90s over dial-up?) which is accessible as any other
>>> CLI application:
>>>
>>>     $ ftp ftp.example.com
>>>     ftp> ls
>>>     [files & directories]
>>>     ftp> cd /pub
>>>     ftp> ls
>>>     [files & directories in /pub]
>>>     ftp> bin
>>>     200 Type set to I.
>>>     ftp> get some_file.zip
>>>     [file downloads]
>>>     ftp> put local_file.mp3
>>>     [uploads "local_file.mp3" to the server]
>>>
>>> If you're only transferring text documents, you can skip the "bin"ary
>>> command, letting it jockey line-endings for you.  But most of the
>>> time you want to use "bin"ary mode to ensure the file doesn't have
>>> newline-translation during transfer.
>>>
>>> -Tim
>>>
>>>
>>> On May 30, 2022, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
>>>> I need a way to connect to some ftp sirvers, what would you
>>>> recommend, weather it be CLI or GUI really doesn't matter to me.
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