File Transfer Protocol client syntax conventions
Follow these syntax conventions when you use the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) client subcommands.
- Uppercase Letters
- Letters printed in uppercase in the syntax definitions for client subcommands are the minimum number of letters that you must enter. You can enter FTP client subcommands in either uppercase or lowercase.
- Lowercase Words or Hyphenated Terms
- Lowercase words or hyphenated terms, like remotefile and account-information, represent variables that you must substitute specific information.
- Brackets[ ]
- You can consider words, symbols, or phrases placed within brackets to be optional.
- Left Parentheses ( and Asterisks *
- You must enter left parentheses and asterisks exactly as they appear n in the syntax definitions.
- Braces { }
- Braces indicate a group of parameters, values, or variables that you may repeat.
- Ellipsis ...
- Ellipses indicate that you can include zero or more repetitions of the preceding variable enclosed within brackets.
- Vertical Bar |
- A vertical bar between parameters or values indicates that you can specify one or the other, but not both, at one time. The vertical bars are within sets of brackets or braces.