Shell Script: FTP File Transfer
Objective: Use a shell script to upload or download a file via FTP.
Tag Archives: ftp
SSH Port Forwarding for FTP
Tunneling a FTP connection over SSH is not something that is straight forward. To understand the problem better, we need to analyse how FTP works.
Recursive FTP from the Command Line
The default command line ftp client in most UNIX distributions do not support recursive downloads, even though recursive downloads is a basic feature in most GUI based ftp clients. But if you do not have access to the X-Windows or GUI, there are alternative ways to achieve the same result from the command line.
