Re: Good Debian/Linux FTP Client program ???
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 07:02:36PM -0500, Randy Patterson wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 April 2007 17:51, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On 04/18/07 16:29, Randy Patterson wrote:
> > [snip]
> >
> > > I have installed a couple of the programs and tried Konqueror. But I need
> > > a little more than drag and drop functionality. With the 3dftp program I
> > > used in Windoze you could sync a local directory with a remote site based
> > > upon criteria such as file size and date. You could also setup include
> > > and exclude filters as well on both files and directories. There was a
> > > little learning curve but once you had a site configured you could work
> > > all day on a site locally and at the end of the day just connect to the
> > > remote site, choose the sync direction and your que list was filled. I am
> > > looking for an FTP client on Debian with similar functionality and hoping
> > > to narrow down the number of programs to look at.
> >
> > Ah, so what you *really* want is a website synching app, correct?
>
> Well, yes, more or less. I have always used FTP in the past but now that you
> have sort of raise the subject I don't guess I have a requirement for a
> certain protocol so it wouldn't have to be an FTP client! :-) A good FTP
> client makes for a good general purpose tool for doing a number of different
> jobs, website synching would be one of them. I would be open to suggestions
> for an alternative! I think you can teach an old dog new tricks! :-) I have
> already downloaded some of the suggested FTP clients for a test run.
>
> Thanks,
> Randy
lftp using the "mirror" command is a good synching application; mirror
alone mirrors the website to your local computer and mirror -R mirrors
your local site (Everything in `pwd`) to the FTP working directory.
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