lftp a sophisticated ftp client

This is the final part of this series and we’ll learn how to connect to a ftp site when we are behind a proxy or firewall, scheduling tasks with at command and queuing jobs with queue command.

In this part of this series we will learn how to deal with directories operations: create, download, upload and mirroring.

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.

lftp is a sophisticated ftp client that implements the following features:

– Handles different protocols: ftp, ftps, sftp, http, hftp, fish and bittorrent (https and ftps protocols will be available only if lftp was compiled with GNU TLS or OpenSSL libraries) …