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6 simpleftp - Rudimentary FTP client
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9 simpleftp url [...]
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12 simpleftp is a Perl script script that provides basic support for
13 fetching files with FTP in a batch oriented fashion. It takes one or
14 more FTP URLS on the command line. The file(s) will be retrieved from
15 the remote server and placed in the current directory with the same
16 basename as on the remote; e.g., "ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/CON‐
17 FIG/active.gz" is stored as active.gz in the current directory.
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20 simpleftp is an extremely poor substitute for more complete programs
21 like the freely available wget or ncftp utilities. It was written only
22 to provide elementary support in INN for non-interactive fetching of
23 the files in <ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/CONFIG/> without requiring
24 administrators to install yet another package. Its shortcomings as a
25 general purpose program are too numerous to mention, but one that
26 stands out is that simpleftp does not understand the complete syntax of
27 URLs, only the hostname and pathname parts -- it will not understand
28 username, password, port or parameter strings.
29 The Perl libraries that it uses have the advantage of coming with Perl,
31 even older versions of Perl, but are not "-w" safe and do not work
32 nearly as well as Net::FTP.
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35 Tossed off by David C Lawrence <tale@isc.org> for InterNetNews.
36 $Id: simpleftp.1 6276 2003-04-03 00:54:02Z rra $
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