long ftp dir listings
Dear list, I am often annoyed trying to get a long directory listing from my unix box while ftp'ing somewhere. pause is hardly useful, since the listing goes by to quickly. Occasionally, I have found a site that uses |more , but this is unusual. I often resort to using ftp in Windows DOS mode so I can scroll up a long listing. Any good methods would be appreciated. David ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: long ftp dir listings
In the last episode (Sep 29), David said: Dear list, I am often annoyed trying to get a long directory listing from my unix box while ftp'ing somewhere. pause is hardly useful, since the listing goes by to quickly. Occasionally, I have found a site that uses |more , but this is unusual. I often resort to using ftp in Windows DOS mode so I can scroll up a long listing. Any good methods would be appreciated. If you're on a vty, hit scroll-lock and pageup. /usr/bin/ftp also has a pdir command that pipes the output to $PAGER locally. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: long ftp dir listings
On 9/29/05, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear list, I am often annoyed trying to get a long directory listing from my unix box while ftp'ing somewhere. pause is hardly useful, since the listing goes by to quickly. Occasionally, I have found a site that uses |more , but this is unusual. I often resort to using ftp in Windows DOS mode so I can scroll up a long listing. Any good methods would be appreciated. I use zsh's built in ftp. It's as simple as this (assuming zsh is installed): #[probably put this in .zshrc] zmodload zsh/zftp autoload -U zfinit zfinit zfopen ftp.whatever.foo [user pass when prompted] zfcd pub/example/test/etc zfls|less The real beauty of it is that you can use all of zsh's expansions and the ftp stuff sits in the background while you use your shell. For more info man zshzftpsys Good luck :) Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: long ftp dir listings
On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 09:27:31 -0700, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I am often annoyed trying to get a long directory listing from my unix box while ftp'ing somewhere. pause is hardly useful, since the listing goes by to quickly. Occasionally, I have found a site that uses |more , but this is unusual. I often resort to using ftp in Windows DOS mode so I can scroll up a long listing. Any good methods would be appreciated. If you are an Emacs user, you can use Dired and EFS (or Ange-FTP) to browse FTP listings. Ange-FTP only understands remote unix-style listings. EFS can additionally parse listings from: VMS, CMS, MTS, MVS, ti-twenex, ti-explorer (the last two are lisp machines), TOPS-20, DOS (running the Distinct, Novell, FTP software, NCSA, Microsoft in both unix and DOS mode, Super TCP, and Hellsoft FTP servers), unix descriptive listings (dl), KA9Q, OS/2, VOS, NOS/VE, CMS running the KNET server, Tandem's Guardian OS, COKE, Mac (Running Peter's ftpd) In other words, pretty much anything. Emacs + Dired works fine on a dumb terminal. If you have X running and you would rather avoid Emacs, then search the ports for FTP clients with a GUI. There are a number of them. Sandy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
