ftp transfer status?

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Sun, 14 May 2006, Aaron Konstam wrote:

> 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.

You didn't say sftp in your original post.  But lftp does sftp protocol as 
well as ftp, ftps, http, https, hftp, fish, and file protocols.  gftp does 
sftp as well, IIRC, but I don't have it installed ATM.


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 		Matthew Saltzman

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