ftp transfer status?

[taharka]

How do,

On Sun, 2006-05-14 at 17:04 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> On Sun, 14 May 2006, taharka wrote:
> 
> > How do,
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > You sure bout that? I believe man ftp says the "-v" operator yields
> > progress of ftp transfers ;-)
> 
> It says:
> 
> -v     Verbose option forces ftp to show all responses from the  remote
>                server, as well as report on data transfer statistics.
> 
> I don't know if that means progress bars or post-transfer reports, and I 
> don't have an FTP server handy to play with.

According to,
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ftp&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE+and+Ports&format=html
looks like, progress may be the ticket.

Personally, I haven't used ftp in about 7 years. If I need a file from
an ftp server, I use the fetch command on a FreeBSD server/workstation
to retrieve it. The fetch command has a progress bar & it is lightning
quick :-)) I can always scp the retrieved file to any nix system on my
LAN. BTW, IIRC you don't need an FTP server handy to play with. You can
retrieve a file, via ftp from the cli, off any ftp server on the
internet.

> >
> >> 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.
> 
> -- 
>  		Matthew Saltzman
> 
> Clemson University Math Sciences
> mjs AT clemson DOT edu
> http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs

taharka

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