Hello,

The terminal doesn't provide a password field as you are imagining. Basically, 
you type text at the command prompt and the machine responds. Scrolling text up 
the screen. Many programs and commands have man pages. They give all the 
available options so can look daunting. If you run terminal and type man ftp 
then press the enter key. The man page for ftp will appear. Use VO + up arrow 
and down to read the page. Press 'q' to quit the man page. A quick look at it 
suggests you could type:

ftp http://username:[email protected]

This is just one option. Providing you know your username and password, host 
url and any required port information. You can string it together and get it 
done. If you use the same site and same activity you can automate the process.  
If you get the right structure but not specified the password. It will prompt 
you to type it. There's no edit field, it's just there at the prompt. Just type 
your password and press the enter key, so the machine knows that you have 
finished.

Be aware, that the flags are case sensitive. Thus -p is different to -P.

Good luck.

Gena

Georgina Joyce
Applied Psychologist
Training and Coaching.
Because individuals of groups matter!


On 5 Sep 2013, at 11:38, David Eagle <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi everyone, I finally return to my mac after nine months of neglect, 
> primarily due to my PC breaking. 
> I am pleasantly surprised to find that I'm really enjoying the experience. 
> However, I cannot find an FTP solution, and since I work quite a bit with FTP 
> this is a bit of a blow. Apparently you can use terminal, but I can't find a 
> place to enter a password. I can find username and host but no password 
> field. I have selected ftp in the services list. Any help with terminal for 
> FTP would be very much appreciated. I tried filezilla, which works 
> brilliantly on the PC and is fully accessible on the PC, but sadly this is 
> fully inaccessible on the mac. 
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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