Using HP-UX Internet Services (February 2007)

3 Transferring Files with ftp

With ftp, you can transfer files among HP-UX, UNIX, and non-UNIX network hosts

that support ARPA services. For more information, type man 1 ftp at the HP-UX

prompt.

Using ftp

The following steps describe how to transfer files between the local and remote host

using the ftp program:

1. Issue the following command to establish a connection with the remote host:

ftp remote_host_name

ftp remote_IP_address

2. Type your user name when prompted for by the remote host. If you do not have

an account on the remote host, type anonymous or ftp as the user name to get

access to the anonymous ftp directory. Anonymous ftp allows you to access only

the directory that is set up for anonymous ftp.

3. Type your password when prompted for by the remote host. If you are logging

in as an anonymous user, type your user name and local host name as the

password, in the following format:

user_name@local_host_name

If you are using the Secure Internet Services version of ftp you will not be

prompted for a password.

4. Set the transfer type, if necessary. You can use the binary type to transfer all

types of files. To identify the current transfer type, type status at the ftp>

prompt. To set the transfer type to binary, type binary at the ftp> prompt.

5. You can perform directory operations on the remote host, by issuing commands

such as pwd, cd, and ls. For a list of ftp commands, type ? at the ftp> prompt.

For help on a specific command, type ? command at the ftp> prompt.

To perform directory operations and other shell commands on the local host, put

an exclamation point before the command, for example, !ls.

6. At the ftp> prompt, use the following put or get command to transfer files

between the local and remote systems:

ftp> put filename [destination_filename]

ftp> get filename [destination_filename]

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