wdel(1)

💅 wdel — Internet Applications · FTP

ok so bestie, welcome to the wdel manual. she lives in section 1 of the FTP-flavoured internet-applications corner of the man pages, and she is literally here to delete stuff off ftp servers. sit down, hydrate, let's go 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

wdel — a wget-like program for deleting files on ftp servers 🗑️✨

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

wdel [option]... [URL [file]...]...

that's it. that's the whole vibe. options, urls, files, repeat forever until you're done deleting. 💀

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Wdel is a free utility that can delete files on an ftp server. no cap, that's the job. 🔥

She's non-interactive and background-capable, which is giving "set it and forget it" main character energy. She can delete files or whole directories — like, the entire folder, gone, poof. And she's built to be a robust client even when your connection is being unstable and dramatic, so if the connection broke mid-delete she will retry to delete that file. she does not give up on you. periodt. 💪

Wdel also supports connections through proxies, so you can use her in an environment that can only reach the internet via a proxy, or to provide anonymity by hiding your ip-address from the server. sneaky, iconic, we love her. 🕵️♀️

And for SOCKSv5-proxies? She also supports listening mode, which lets you use port-mode ftp through a proxy. super useful if the remote ftp is sitting behind a firewall or a gateway, iykyk. 🧚

🎀 URL-Input-Handling 🎀

ok this part is important, listen up bestie. 👂

URLs are recognized by the ftp://-prefix. that's the signal, that's the flag, that's how she knows.

Wdel first reads the URLs from the command line, and associates every file with the last URL until a new URL is found. (note that this is different from wput — do not come for me, that's just what the manpage says.) then, she reads the --input-file (if any) and parses the URLs in the same way. so you can specify, like, one URL and read all the filenames from a file. convenient queen. 👑

If there are no explicit filenames given for a single URL, then the last part of the URL is taken to be the file/directory to be deleted. but if there are filenames, then the last part of the URL is considered to be the directory where these files reside in. subtle, but it matters. 🫠

Also: slashes at the end of the URL or the filename (in case it's a directory to be deleted) are ignored. she does not care about your trailing slashes. she's above that. 💅

💖 OPTIONS 💖

so here's the tea: there are no special options introduced by Wdel. 😭

All of Wput's options may be supplied, although some will not be of any effect because they do not apply for the process of deleting files. like, girl, why would a delete care about upload settings? exactly. 🙈

Please see wput(1) for a description of the options. 👑

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Many options can be set in a wputrc file. For its documentation consult the sample file provided by Wput. 📄✨

wput(1) describes all setable options. Not all apply for wdel too though — so read carefully, bestie. 👀

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Wdel is written by Hagen Fritsch <fritsch+wdel-man@in.tum.de> and Jan Larres <jan@majutsushi.net>. legends, honestly. 🫶

and that's the whole page!! this version of the manual is 0.6.2, brought to you by Hagen Fritsch and Jan Larres 💖 go forth and delete responsibly, bestie. slay. 🎀🦋✨