lcd - Change directory on local machine.cd - Change directory on remote machine.help or? - List all available FTP commands.Many FTP commands are similar or identical to the commands we use at the command prompt on a Gnu / Linux system.īelow are some of the most common FTP commands that we can use: If the FTP server we are accessing accepts anonymous ftp accounts and you want to log in as an anonymous user, use anonymous as username and you email as password. If the password is correct, the remote server will display a confirmation message and the ftp> prompt. Once we write the username, we will have to write our password: You may see a different confirmation message depending on the FTP service running on the remote server. For this example, the FTP username is sapoclay: We will be asked to enter our FTP username. We open a terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T) and write: 1.3 Downloading files with FTP commandsīasic examples of the FTP command Establishing connection to FTPįor, open an ftp connection to a remote system, the ftp command must be followed by the IP address or domain name of the remote server.

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