ftpcp(1)

🎀 ftpcp(1) — the group-chat guide 🎀

okay so bestie, you wanna pull files off an FTP server and land them on your own machine? Say less. That's literally the whole job of ftpcp, a General Commands Manual girlie living in section 1. Let's get into it 💅

✨ NAME ✨

ftpcp — copy files from a FTP server to the local machine 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

Two ways to run this, pick your fighter:

ftpcp ftp://host[:port]/directory local-dir

or

ftpcp host[:post] /directory local-dir

Not me pointing out that [:post] in the second form is written exactly like that, okay? That's what the page says, so that's what we're typing. Copy it character for character and we move on 🙈

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So here's the tea 🍓: ftpcp is a frontend to the ftpcopy program. That's its whole personality and honestly? Iconic.

Calling this:

ftpcp arguments ...

has exactly the same results as calling this:

ftpcopy -n arguments ...

or, in other words — and this is the part that matters — ftpcp calls ftpcopy -n, so that files already in the local directory are not deleted. 🫶 The -n is doing the heavy lifting, protecting your existing files like the main character it is. No cap.

✨ AUTHOR ✨

Uwe Ohse, uwe@ohse.de 💜

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

• ftpls(1)
• ftpcopy(1)

Also, the homepage may be more up-to-date, so go peek: http://www.ohse.de/uwe/ftpcopy.html 🌈

and that's the whole page, bestie 💖 this was ftpcopy 0.6.7, from the General Commands Manual, and yes we're signing off as ftpcp(1) because that's who we are. slay, go copy some files, mwah 💅🎀