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@xxxxxxxxx> 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 Lexington, Kentucky U.S.A.
