11.C.3: Transfering Multiple Files

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To transfer files from one machine to another, you use the put and get ftp subcommands:

ftp> put index.html	put file from local to remote
ftp> get index.html	get file from remote to local

It is important to keep the action of these commands straight. It is all to easy to wipe out your work by writing over it with your old file. One way to keep them straight is to remember that the command verb always acts on the remote machines files.

Try it! If the file transfers successfully, you will get a message like:

200 PORT command successful
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for index.html
226 Transfer complete
2183 bytes sent in 0 seconds (2.1 Kbytes/s)


To make sure it was really copied (not a bad thing to do):

ftp> ls -l

Text files will usually transfer successfully in either mode. Entering ftp> ascii prior to transfer places ftp into ascii mode. Here we transfer the binary file CONST.GIF:

ftp> binary

Before we put a file into the directory backup-cluster, we need to get into the directory on the local computer containing that file. The file we are going to put is CONST.FIG and is in ~/public-html/figs:

ftp> lcd figs
ftp> put CONST.GIF

Now we'll see how to transfer a group of files with one command.

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11.C.3: Transfering Multiple Files

11: Multiple Machines

11.C.1: Help an Navigation

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