11.C.2: transferring Individual Files

11: Multiple Machines

11.C: Using ftp

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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:

ftp> ?

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:

> help get

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

ftp> pwd
ftp> mkdir backup-cluster