ftp command

Summary

You can interact with the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) shell to connect to a server and transfer files

Description

You can use the FTP shell to connect to your FTP server or the public FTP servers to interact with the files found in the server.

You can download files to your computer, upload files to the server, manage files by renaming, deleting, etc., and so on.

Command usage

• ftp [address]

Examples

• ftp ftp://ftp.us.debian.org: Connects your FTP client to ftp://ftp.us.debian.org, the Debian FTP server.