On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 2:02 AM, <to...@tuxteam.de> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 04:44:17PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > > I'm ftp'ing to a Dell/Quest K1000 System Management appliance, from a > > Debian 9.0 box, and when I execute the command "ls" or "del" or do a > > tab-completion, the commands act on the local directory instead of the > > remote, so that "ls" acts like "!ls". > > This is not how it's supposed to work. At least not ls (dir and ls should > both list the remote's system directory contents). > > Which ftp client are you using? >
westk@westkent:~$ aptitude show ftp Package: ftp Version: 0.17-34 I should make a correction to my description of the problem. "ls" by itself shows the remote directory files "ls <filename> looks to the local directory (as does "ls [tab-completion]" or "del <filename> | [tab-completion]"). Weird stuff. -- Kent
