SIMPLEFTP(1) InterNetNews Documentation SIMPLEFTP(1)NAMEsimpleftp - Rudimentary FTP client
SYNOPSISsimpleftp url [...]
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; e.g.,
<ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/CONFIG/active.gz> is stored as active.gz
in the current directory.
The script properly understands usernames, passwords and ports
specified as follows:
ftp://user:password@host:port/path/file
BUGSsimpleftp is an extremely poor substitute for more complete programs
like the freely available wget or ncftp utilities. It was written only
to provide elementary support in INN for non-interactive fetching of
the files in <ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/pgpcontrol/> or
<ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/CONFIG/> without requiring administrators
to install yet another package. Its shortcomings as a general purpose
program are too numerous to mention, but one that stands out is that
downloaded files by simpleftp override existing files with the same
name in the local directory.
HISTORY
Tossed off by David C Lawrence <tale@isc.org> for InterNetNews.
Rewritten to use "Net::FTP" by Julien Elie.
$Id: simpleftp.pod 8357 2009-02-27 17:56:00Z iulius $
SEE ALSOactsync(8).
INN 2.5.3 2009-05-21 SIMPLEFTP(1)
