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NAME

6       simpleftp - Rudimentary FTP client
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SYNOPSIS

9       simpleftp url [...]
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DESCRIPTION

12       simpleftp is a Perl script that provides basic support for fetching
13       files with FTP in a batch oriented fashion.  It takes one or more FTP
14       URLs on the command line.  The file(s) will be retrieved from the
15       remote server and placed in the current directory with the same
16       basename as on the remote; e.g.,
17       <ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/CONFIG/active.gz> is stored as active.gz
18       in the current directory.
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20       The script properly understands usernames, passwords and ports
21       specified as follows:
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23           ftp://user:password@host:port/path/file
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BUGS

26       simpleftp is an extremely poor substitute for more complete programs
27       like the freely available wget or ncftp utilities.  It was written only
28       to provide elementary support in INN for non-interactive fetching of
29       the files in <ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/pgpcontrol/> or
30       <ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/CONFIG/> without requiring administrators
31       to install yet another package.  Its shortcomings as a general purpose
32       program are too numerous to mention, but one that stands out is that
33       downloaded files by simpleftp override existing files with the same
34       name in the local directory.
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HISTORY

37       Tossed off by David C Lawrence <tale@isc.org> for InterNetNews.
38       Rewritten to use "Net::FTP" by Julien Elie.
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40       $Id: simpleftp.pod 8357 2009-02-27 17:56:00Z iulius $
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SEE ALSO

43       actsync(8).
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47INN 2.5.2                         2010-08-11                      SIMPLEFTP(1)