lftp a sophisticated ftp client – file handling

lftp: ftp client

In the first part of this series we learned what lftp is and how to execute some basic ftp operations as connecting/login/exploring an ftp site; in this part we will learn how to deal with file operations: download, upload and change permissions.

Download a file

> get file-name

Download several files

> get file1 file2 file3

Specify where you want to save locally

> get -O my-local-files/ file1 file2

Save with a different local name

> get file1 -o file1-diff-name
> get file1 -o file1-diff-name  file2 -o file2-diff-name

Upload a file

> put local-file-name

Upload multiple files

> put local-file1 local-file2 local-file3

Specify the remote location where you want to put

> put -O remote-dir/ login.class.php user.class.php

Save with a different remote name

> put user.class.php -o admin.class.php
> put file1 -o file1-different-name file2 -o file2-different-name

Download files using wildcards

Download all jpeg files from the current remote directory

> mget *.jpeg

Download all the txt files from the current remote directory whose name begins with file followed by any character

> mget file?.txt

Download all txt files from the directory DIR, keeping the directory structure

> mget -d dir/*.txt

Download all files from all directories whose name starts with mydir, keeping the directory structure (subdirectories are excluded)

> mget -d mydir*/*

Upload files using wildcards

Upload all jpeg files from the current local directory

> mput *.jpeg

Upload all txt files from the current local directory whose name begins with file followed by any character

> mput file?.txt

Move or rename a file

> mv source dest

Rename the file file1.txt to file2.txt

> mv file1.txt file2.txt

Move the file file.txt from the current remote directory to doc remote directory (if you do not add a trailing /, lftp fails)

> mv file.txt doc/

Remove a file

> rm file-name

Delete all files from the current remote directory (directories are not included)

> mrm *

Change file permissions, the permissions must be specified in octal mode

> chmod perms file-name

Set read and write perms for the owner and group, read perms for the world.

> chmod 664 README.txt

Viewing the remote file content

> cat file-name
> less file-name

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