Red Hat® Linux® 7 Unleashed

Using FTP Clients

This section introduces you to several of the FTP clients included with Red Hat Linux. Although the venerable ftp command has remained the standard network file transfer utility and tool of choice for millions of users worldwide, there's always room for improvement. However, the ftp command has a number of features of which many users might not be aware.

Most new and experienced Red Hat Linux users know how to access remote FTP servers by using ftp on the command line along with the name of a remote computer (as described at the beginning of this chapter). You can also speed up anonymous log-ins by using FTP's -a command-line option. However, later versions of the ftp command will also log in and retrieve files with a single ...