Mastering Python Scripting for System Administrators

Downloading files

In this section, we are going to learn about downloading files from another machine using ftplib. For that, create a get_ftp_files.py script and write the following content in it:

import osfrom ftplib import FTPftp = FTP('your-ftp-domain-or-ip')with ftp:    ftp.login('your-username','your-password')    ftp.cwd('/home/student/work/')    files = ftp.nlst()    print(files)    # Print the files    for file in files:        if os.path.isfile(file):            print("Downloading..." + file)            ftp.retrbinary("RETR " + file ,open("/home/student/testing/" + file, 'wb').write)ftp.close()

Run the script as follows:

student@ubuntu:~/work$ python3 get_ftp_files.py

You should get the following output:

Downloading...helloDownloading...hello.cDownloading...sample.txtDownloading...strip_hello ...