simpleftp - rudimentary ftp client


SYNOPSIS

       simpleftp ftp://...  [ ... ]


DESCRIPTION

       simpleftp is a perl script that provides basic support for
       fetching files with FTP in a batch oriented  fashion.   It
       takes  one  or  more  ftp  URLS  on the command line.  The
       file(s) will be  retrieved  from  the  remote  server  and
       placed  in the current directory with the same basename as
       on  the  remote;  i.e.,  ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/CON­
       FIG/active.gz is stored as active.gz in the current direc­
       tory.


BUGS

       simpleftp is an extremely poor substitute  for  more  com­
       plete  programs  like  the  freely available wget or ncftp
       utilities.  It was written only to provide elementary sup­
       port  in  INN for non-interactive fetching of the files in
       ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/CONFIG/   without   requiring
       administrators to install yet another package.  Its short­
       comings as a general purpose program are too  numerous  to
       mention,  but  one  that stands out is that simpleftp does
       not understand the complete syntax of URLs, only the host­
       name  and  pathname  parts -- it will not understand user­
       name, password, port or parameter strings.


HISTORY

       Tossed off by David C Lawrence <tale@isc.org>  for  Inter­
       NetNews.


SEE ALSO

       actsync(8).


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