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- WareLogging, FileTransfer, an FTP client. Useful in situations where sane/secure alternatives such as scp are unavailable - won't protect you from the follies of plaintext, but at least it ameliorates the interface pain of plain-jane FTP.
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- = mirroring local directories =
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- In a pinch, this works nicely from within lftp:
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- mirror -x regex_to_exclude -R ./directory ./remote_directory
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- The -R reverses the normal behavior of mirroring a remote directory to a local one.
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- = recursively remove directories with lftp =
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- If you're having a hard time recursively deleting directories with lftp, they might contain dotfiles that aren't visible to the client by default. Edit or create ~/.lftp/rc, and add this:
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- set ftp:list-options -a
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- You should then be able to do
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- rm -r dirname
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- painlessly.
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