ftp transfer status?

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Sun, 14 May 2006, taharka wrote:

> How do,
>
> On Sun, 2006-05-14 at 17:04 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>> On Sun, 14 May 2006, taharka wrote:
>>
>>> How do,
>>>
>>> On Sun, 2006-05-14 at 12:49 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>>>> On Sun, 14 May 2006, Devon Harding wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Anyone?
>>>>>
>>>>> On 5/12/06, Devon Harding <devonharding at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Besides hash, is there any way to see the progress of cli ftp transfers?
>>>>
>>>> Use a better ftp client?
>>>
>>> You sure bout that? I believe man ftp says the "-v" operator yields
>>> progress of ftp transfers ;-)
>>
>> It says:
>>
>> -v     Verbose option forces ftp to show all responses from the  remote
>>                server, as well as report on data transfer statistics.
>>
>> I don't know if that means progress bars or post-transfer reports, and I
>> don't have an FTP server handy to play with.
>
> According to,
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ftp&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE+and+Ports&format=html
> looks like, progress may be the ticket.

According to my experiment, the -v option does not show progress.

>
> Personally, I haven't used ftp in about 7 years. If I need a file from
> an ftp server, I use the fetch command on a FreeBSD server/workstation
> to retrieve it. The fetch command has a progress bar & it is lightning
> quick :-)) I can always scp the retrieved file to any nix system on my
> LAN. BTW, IIRC you don't need an FTP server handy to play with. You can
> retrieve a file, via ftp from the cli, off any ftp server on the
> internet.

I can use any FTP server that allows anonymous access, but I couldn't 
think of one last night.  I don't use it regularly anymore either.

>
>>>
>>>> Try lftp, which is part of FC, or ncftp, which is in Extras.  Both are CLI
>>>> clients, and both are much more featureful than plain ftp.  "Batch mode"
>>>> clients include wget and curl.  gftp is one GUI client.  You can also FTP
>>>> with Firefox or Mozilla, and there are interesting ways to transfer files
>>>> in the various file managers (Nautilus in GNOME and whatever it is in
>>>> KDE) that I haven't really played with much.  All of them will show
>>>> progress bars.
>>
>> --
>>  		Matthew Saltzman
>>
>> Clemson University Math Sciences
>> mjs AT clemson DOT edu
>> http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
>
> taharka
>
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>

-- 
 		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs