ftp transfer status?

taharka res00vl8 at alltel.net
Mon May 15 03:49:14 UTC 2006


How do,

On Sun, 2006-05-14 at 17:17 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> 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.

Most likely he didn't say sftp is by virtue of not being the original
poster ;-)

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

taharka

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