SIMPLEFTP(1)SIMPLEFTP(1)NAMEsimpleftp - rudimentary ftp client
SYNOPSISsimpleftp ftp://... [ ... ]
DESCRIPTIONsimpleftp is a perl script that provides basic support for
fetching files with FTP in a batch oriented fashion. It
takes one or more ftp URLS on the command line. The
file(s) will be retrieved from the remote server and
placed in the current directory with the same basename as
on the remote; i.e., ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/CON
FIG/active.gz is stored as active.gz in the current direc
tory.
BUGSsimpleftp is an extremely poor substitute for more com
plete programs like the freely available wget or ncftp
utilities. It was written only to provide elementary sup
port in INN for non-interactive fetching of the files in
ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/CONFIG/ without requiring
administrators to install yet another package. Its short
comings as a general purpose program are too numerous to
mention, but one that stands out is that simpleftp does
not understand the complete syntax of URLs, only the host
name and pathname parts -- it will not understand user
name, password, port or parameter strings.
HISTORY
Tossed off by David C Lawrence <tale@isc.org> for Inter
NetNews.
SEE ALSOactsync(8).
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