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Summary of FTP Client Commands
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Summary of FTP Client Commands
The following is a list of typical FTP client commands:
- Command
- Description
- bye or close or quit
Terminates an FTP connection.
- cd
Changes the current working directory on the FTP host server.
- cwd
Changes the current directory to the specified remote directory.
- dir
Requests a directory of files uploaded or available for download.
- get
Downloads a single file.
- ls
Requests a list of file names uploaded or available for download.
- mget
Interactively downloads multiple files.
- mput
Interactively uploads multiple files.
- open
Starts an FTP connection.
- pasv
Tells the server to enter passive mode in which the serverwaits for the client to establish a connection rather than attemptingto connect to a port the client specifies.
- put
Uploads a single file.
- pwd
Queries the current working directory.
- ren
Renames or moves a file.
- site
Executes a site-specific command.
- stor
Starts the transmission of a file to the remote host.
- type
Sets the file transfer mode:
- ASCII
- IMAGE (Binary)
- EBCDIC
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