FTP Usage

MacOS does not come with an FTP command line tool. You can install it (and other old-school network tools) by installing inetutils.

brew install inetutils

Usage

Log into your server

ftp username@server

Copy folder of files across, this will copy across all files in the local CWD.

ftp> mput
(local-file) *

Note

ftp defaults to interactive mode, meaning all files will require a confirmation before sending.**

To disable interactive mode, either run the command with the -i flag or use the command prompt to switch.

LFTP

FTP is old and sucky in a variety of ways. LFTP (command-line file transfer program) is a more modern version of the same thing.

Disable SSL certificate verification Some hosts, like Hostinger have invalid SSL certificates over FTP.

lftp [...]:/> set ssl:verify-certificate false

Recursively and concurrently mirror a folder

lftp [...]:/> mirror -R --parallel [local] [remote]

Run a command un-interactively

lftp -u user,pass -e "... ; quit"