There are a lot of tutorials out there you can google but basically you
open terminal and then type
ftp server.domain.com
where you put in the actual server you want to ftp to. After that it
should prompt you for the username and password. Once you're in you can
use the "ls" command to list what files are in the remote machine's
directory and "get somefilename" to transfer a file from the remote
machine to yours. If there is a folder on the remote machine you can do
"cd somefoldername" to open that up and then ls again to get a list of
files in there. To go back up a level you do "cd .." to go back to the
parent. Likewise, you can do "lls" to get a local list of files on your
drive. To transfer from your machine to theirs you type "put filename".
To change the local directory you use "lcd". Two things that can
sometimes trip people up. One is that the default local directory is
usually /Users/yourfolder so before you start ftp you might want to do a
"cd Desktop" or "cd Documents" since that's more likely where you want
files copied from/to. Another trick is that ftp assumes text so if
you're moving a sound, picture, video or other binary file you need to
type "binary" before you do your put or get. Another handy pair is mget
and mput to transfer multiple files at once. With these you can use the
* as a wildcard which matches anything. So you could do "mget *.mp3"
which would transfer all the files ending in mp3 from the current
directory to your machine. By default it asks you to hit Y for Yes on
each file match. If you're sure you want all of them then type "prompt"
before doing mget or mput to turn off prompting. When you're done just
type quit. While connected you can type "help" to get a list of
supported commands.
This is how we rolled back in the dialup days. Be glad you don't have to
deal with SLIP and PPP to do UUCP for your Usenet news feeds :)
Hope this helps.
CB
On 9/22/14, 11:32 AM, Jessica Moss wrote:
Really? Can I get some help with that please?
On Sep 22, 2014, at 10:57 AM, Brandon A. Olivares <programmer2...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Yes you can upload. It's the put command.
On Sep 22, 2014, at 9:15 AM, Jessica Moss <junglebookfa...@gmail.com> wrote:
I don't think you can upload with that though, can you, unless something's
changed? I have an acount on my friend's server but you have to contribute,
which is only fare, but I haven't gone on there much lately, because I haven't
found anything that's even remotely accessible that I can do anything with, so
haven't been able to upload anything.
On Sep 21, 2014, at 11:17 PM, Tyler Thompson <tktpianostud...@gmail.com> wrote:
If you don't want to pay you could use the mac terminal, it's free and there's
ftp support built in. Just look up the ftp commands for the mac terminal. It
supports sftp as well.
On Sep 19, 2014, at 10:13 PM, Jean <radiofore...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello:
What are people using for ftp? I know there was some discussion about a
program called transfer but I am unable to find it in the app store.
All help appreciated,
Jean
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