Console FTP Commands

The following terms are helpful in order to understand the above example of command-line FTP:

Command	Description
ascii	Set the file transfer type to network ASCII.
binary	Set the file transfer type to support binary files.
bye or quit	Terminate the FTP remote session and exit FTP. An end of file also terminates the session.
cd remote-directory	Change the working directory on the remote computer to remote-directory.
delete remote-file	Delete the file remote-file on the remote computer.
dir or ls remote-dir	Print a directory contents list in the directory, remote-directory. If no remote directory is specified, a list of the current working directory on the remote computer is displayed.
get remote-file local-file	Retrieve the remote-file and store it on the local computer. If the local file name is not specified, it is given the same name it has on the remote computer.
help command	Print an informative message about the meaning of command. If no argument is given, FTP prints a list of the known commands.
lcd local-directory	Change the working directory on the local computer. If no directory is specified, the user's current local working directory is displayed.
mdelete remote-files	Delete the remote-files on the remote computer.
mget remote-files	Expand the remote-files on the remote computer and do a get for each file name thus produced.
mkdir remote-directory	Make a directory on the remote computer.
mput local-files	Expand wild cards in the list of local files given as arguments and do a put for each file in the resulting list.
prompt	Toggle interactive prompting. Interactive prompting occurs during multiple file transfers to allow the user to selectively retrieve or store files. If prompting is turned off (default is on), any mget or mput transferred all files, and any mdelete deleted all files.
put local-file remote-file	Store a local file on the remote computer. If remote-file is left unspecified, the local file name is used.
rename from to	Rename the file on the remote computer to the file on local computer.
rmdir directory-name	Delete a directory on the remote computer.

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