What you can do in terminal is a pretty huge scope of things. You can
start with some basics by using the man command to pull up manual pages
for various commands. So you could do man ftp, man cd or man ls to get
details on what those commands do. It can get a bit techie but it does
work. The text just comes in line by line so you can always go back to
review. You can even get help on the man system itself by doing man man.
There's also piles of stuff one google away. So googling "osx terminal
ftp" pulled up a number of tutorials. Doing stuff the terminal way
hasn't changed much over the years so even older references or
references from other Unixes will still get you going. Here's one that
might help:
http://mmughrabi.blogspot.com/2007/10/using-mac-os-x-terminal-as-ftp-client.html
CB
On 10/25/11 2:56 PM, Ioana Gandrabur wrote:
Wow,
Never tried this but would like to give it a try. Do you get feedback if it
worked etd? Where can I get basic terminal info?Would you be willing to send me
some sample of command line prompts for logging in etc?
Thanks a lot for your help!
Ioana
On Oct 25, 2011, at 10:58 AM, Chris Blouch wrote:
If you don't mind typing commands you can do all that in terminal just fine. Just type ftp and the
server name, put in your username and password and then you can use the cd command to change
directories and the put or get commands to move files back and forth. Easiest if you cd to the
folder on your computer with the files you want to upload before doing the ftp command. So if your
files are on your desktop in a folder called upload you would first do "cd
Desktop/upload" before doing ftp. If you forget you can also do lcd which tells ftp to change
the local directory to whatever you put in rather than the directory on the server. If you are
using a secure site you can also do sftp the same way. You'll also want to note whether transfers
default to Binary as not all FTP servers do this. If not you can change it by typing the
"binary" command. Otherwise uploads like images and audio will get mangled.
CB
On 10/21/11 3:46 PM, Ioana Gandrabur wrote:
Hi all,
What do you use to upload files on a server via ftp? Say for updating a web
page? Downloaded filezilla but don't find it particularly easy to use or set up.
Thanks,
Ioana
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