How to Download and Upload Files Using FTP Command Line

Sep 9
08:27

2015

Rossy Guide

Rossy Guide

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The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is the most popular protocol to transfer files (download and upload) from one system to other system. It provides the fastest way transfer files. There are many application available on Linux and windows to FTP services like vsftpd, proftpd for Linux, FileZilla Server for windows.

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In computer networks,How to Download and Upload Files Using FTP Command Line Articles to download means to receive data to a local system from a remote system, or to initiate such a data transfer.

In computer networks, to upload can refer to the sending of data from a local system to a remote system such as a server or another client with the intent that the remote system should store a copy of the data being transferred, or the initiation of such a process.

There are various ways to connect to ftp server, Also you can find multiple free tools on internet to work with ftp. But system admins know the power of command line. This article will help you to how to connect to FTP server using command line and Download and Upload Files using FTP protocol between FTP server local system.

Connect to FTP Server via Command Line:

To connect to any FTP server from windows open its command prompt and for Linux open terminal window. Now you have required IP or Hostname of FTP server and login credentials to connect with specific user.

c:> ftp ftp.tecadmin.net

 

Upload Single File to FTP Server:

To upload file on FTP server use put command from ftp prompt. First navigate to desired directory on ftp server where to upload file and use following command. It will upload local system file c:filesfile1.txt to uploads directory on ftp server.

ftp> cd uploads

ftp> put c:filesfile1.txt

 

Download Single File from FTP Server:

To download file from FTP server, we use get command. Using that command we can download one time at a time. To download any file from ftp server, first login to your ftp server, navigate to directory and use following command to download

ftp> get file1.txt

 

Upload Multiple Files to FTP Server:

To upload multiple files to FTP server we use mput command from ftp prompt. We can specify wild card character to upload multiple files to server at a time. First navigate to desired directory on ftp server where to upload file and use following command. It will upload local system files with .txt extension in c:files directory to uploads directory on ftp server.

ftp> cd uploads

ftp> lcd c:files

 

ftp> put *.txt

 

Download Multiple Files from FTP Server:

To download multiple files from FTP server, we use mget command. Using that command we can download more than one files at a time. To download multiple files specify wild card character for specify directory name do download all files from directory.

ftp> mget *.txt