ftp transfer status?
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Sun May 14 20:48:16 UTC 2006
On Sun, 2006-05-14 at 12:49 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> On Sun, 14 May 2006, Devon Harding wrote:
>
> > Anyone?
> >
> > On 5/12/06, Devon Harding <devonharding at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Besides hash, is there any way to see the progress of cli ftp transfers?
>
> Use a better ftp client?
>
> Try lftp, which is part of FC, or ncftp, which is in Extras. Both are CLI
> clients, and both are much more featureful than plain ftp. "Batch mode"
> clients include wget and curl. gftp is one GUI client. You can also FTP
> with Firefox or Mozilla, and there are interesting ways to transfer files
> in the various file managers (Nautilus in GNOME and whatever it is in
> KDE) that I haven't really played with much. All of them will show
> progress bars.
>
>
>
> --
>
All this is true but sftp is the only one that is secure. I cheat and
watch the size of the oblect in a separate window pointed to the target.
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