

netrc file, you can set up macros to perform batches of FTP commands you do frequently. netrc in his home directory containing this: machine login gwbush password yeehahAnd bam!, auto-login! Using the information from the above example, if gwbush wanted to be able to automatically log onto without having to type in his username and password each time, he would create a file called. netrc in your home directory to automatically log you into FTP servers you commonly use. Check the manual page for further information.

If he wanted to download a file outside his home directory, he could, but he'd need to type the first slash as its hex code - %2F - instead of the actual character. For instance, if a user named gwbush had a password yeehah and wanted to download iraq-invasion-plans.txt from, he would type: ftp file would then be downloaded without a need for any further interaction.

Here are three things you can do with the command-line FTP client: I believe many, and even perhaps all, of these hints will be usable by 10.1 users as well, but I am not certain FTP appears to have been upgraded at least somewhat from 10.1 to 10.2, as evidenced by the new textual progress bars during file transfers. Check "man ftp" for full details, but read the rest of the article for three neat examples I discovered just this morning. While we all wait for Finder-level FTP access to be repaired, don't miss out on the cool hidden features of command line FTP program.
