Sorry if it's a silly question, but wouldn't it be better for the FTP client to support the command names as standardized in IETF RFCs?
Felipe On Thu, Aug 3, 2023, 04:02 Erik Auerswald <auers...@unix-ag.uni-kl.de> wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Aug 03, 2023 at 12:20:29AM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: > > Erik Auerswald <auers...@unix-ag.uni-kl.de> writes: > > > On Wed, Aug 02, 2023 at 04:01:00PM -0300, Felipe G. Nievinski wrote: > > >> > > >> I'm using the FTP utility, which supposedly supports the MDTM command > (as > > >> per section 21.1 Standards of the documentation): > > >> https://www.gnu.org/software/inetutils/manual/inetutils.html > > > > > > This documentation pertains to the FTP server (ftpd). > > > > > >> However, when I try mdtm, it complains: "invalid command". > > > > > > The FTP client (ftp) does not implement the MDTM command, as > documented in > > > < > https://www.gnu.org/software/inetutils/manual/html_node/Ftp-commands.html > >. > > > > The "modtime" ftp client command uses MDTM, so try this: > > > > ftp> modtime myfilename.ext > > Thanks, that is interesting! The descriptions of MDTM and modtime > are similar: > > * MDTM: > show last modification time of file > > * modtime file-name: > Show the last modification time of the file on the remote machine. > > It seems as if the FTP client often uses longer, more human friendly > command names instead of the respective server request names. As such > it seems as if "modtime" in the client is "MDTM" in the server. The code > for ftp/cmds.c::modtime seems to confirm that. > > As such the answer to the original question is: > > "MDTM" is spelled "modtime" in the FTP client. > > I have learned something today. :-) > > Best regards, > Erik >
