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Re: Good Debian/Linux FTP Client program ???



On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 09:27:15AM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote:
> On 4/20/07, Gilles Mocellin <gilles.mocellin@free.fr> wrote:
> >Le jeudi 19 avril 2007 14:21, Randy Patterson a écrit:
> >> On Thursday 19 April 2007 02:54, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
> >[...]
> >> lftp will do this from what I have seen so far. The problem with lftp
> >> thought for me seems that it can't mirror a local directory to a remote
> >> site and I need to be able to mirror both ways. But I am still looking at
> >> it. It does almost everything else you could think of so it should do 
> >that
> >> as well.
> >
> >Just look at "mirror -R" lftp command...
> >I use it regularly.
> 
> This doesn't work for me either. I use a script file to backup usign
> lftp. The login succeeds but the mirror -R command seems to fail. lftp
> gives the command mkdir foo even tho foo already exists on the server.
> Even if it doesn exist, it hangs on with the mkdir command and keeps
> trying unless I Ctrl-C out of it.
> 
> BTW, there's a very nice little utility, called cftp which is quite
> cute, given it uses lynz like keys to browse and download files from
> ftp.

If you don't need to script but want to use interactively, what about
midnight commander (mc)?

Doug.



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