August 1999
Intermediate to advanced
1000 pages
83h 9m
English
/usr/bin/ftp [-dgintv][hostname] The ftp command is the user interface to the Internet standard File Transfer Protocol (FTP). Use ftp to transfer files to and from a remote network site.
You can specify the client host with which ftp is to communicate on the command line. If you do so, ftp immediately tries to establish a connection to an FTP server on that host; otherwise, ftp enters its command interpreter and awaits instructions. When ftp is awaiting commands, it displays the prompt ftp>.
Use the following steps to transfer files from your local system to a remote system with the ftp command.
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You may need to have an account on each system and an entry in the /.rhosts file to use the ...
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