ftpls

1 NAME

ftpls - generate a ftp directory listing

SYNOPSIS

ftpls ftp://host[:port]/directory or ftpls host[:post] /directory

DESCRIPTION

ftpls generates a listing of files and directories in a FTP directory. ftpls by default prints a human readable ascii output, but may also create HTML and machine parsable output.

OPTIONS

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: Use NAME to login on the ftp server. Note that this option overrides an user name given in an URL.
The default is `anonymous'. Use an empty name to force to not log in.
: Use PASS as password to login on the ftp server. Note that this option overrides a password given in an URL.
The default is `anonymous@invalid.example'. Use an empty password to enforce not sending any password.
: Send ACCOUNT as the account name using the ACCT ftp command if the ftp servers asks for one.
: ACCOUNT in ftp speak is some kind of sub account in some other terminologies. If you don't understand what it means you have a good chance to never need this option anyway. If you think you need it please try the -u option first.
: Number of tries to connect and log in. The default is 1, meaning that ftpls will give up after the first error.
: ftpls will sleep for NUMBER seconds after a try to connect or login has failed. The default is 5, a zero is treated as one, and abuse (especially together with --tries) is likely to annoy the server administrator.
: This option was added in version 0.4.5.
: Only use IPv4, even is IPv6 is available. This option effectively disallows the use of IPv6, except for DNS queries.
: This option was added in version 0.6.0.
: Only use IPv6, even is IPv4 is available. This option effectively disallows the use of IPv4, except for DNS queries.
: This option was added in version 0.6.0.

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: Create HTML index containing all files together with modification time and size. Note: The links in this index will contain username and password if you include them into an URL given to ftpls on the command line (either as argument or through the --urlprefix option). They will not be included otherwise, for security and privacy reasons.
: Create machine parsable output.
: Title text to use on the HTML output.
: URL-Prefix to use in listings. If this option is not given then an URL given on the command line will be used instead, and if this has not been given an URL will be created from host, port and directory given on the command line.
: Print the name of a sub directory before printing it's content. Do not print the name of the top level directory of the listing.
Use this option together with --raw. Do not use it together with --html.

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: sort alphabetical.
: sort reverse alphabetical.
: sort youngest first.
: sort oldest first.
: sort shortest first.
: sort longest first.

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Do directory listings in ASCII mode instead of binary mode. Use this option if the FTP server is unable to correctly list directories in binary mode, for example, if you see a message like this:

  ftpls: failed to read directory listing: protocol error

This option was added in version 0.5.2.

Add OPTS to LIST command. This allows to pass arbitrary options to the FTP servers LIST command. Note that ftpls does not cope well with recursive directory listings.

ftpls will read the directories to be listed from the standard input. Any remote directory given on the command line will be ignored.

Each directory listing is terminated by a END-OF-LISTING line. Do not use this together with the --html option.

This option was added in version 0.3.6.

Do a recursive directory listing by first printing one directory, including sub directory names, and then traversing into sub directories.

Allow data connections to the address IP4.

Normally ftpcopy only accepts data connections to the addresses of the host it connected to. The list of addresses contains the IP addresses of the host, as returned by the DNS query, or the IPv4 address of the host, in case an IPv4 address was given on the commandline.

This option allows to add one or more IP addresses, separated by commas, to the internal list. It may be given more than once.

You may want to use this option if you are behind some kind of machine (gateway) doing NAT (network address translation) or maquerading and ftpcopy prints an error message containing "illegal redirect by FTP server".

Note: If you are not behind a NAT gateway, then do not use this option without thinking: FTP redirects may be used to launch denial of service attacks against innocent targets.

The environment variable FTPCOPY_ALLOW_PASV_IP has the same function.

This option was added in version 0.6.1.

Output directory listings in the original format and sort order.

Timeout to use for network read/write and connect operations. The default is 30 seconds and is usually sufficient.

This option was added in version 0.3.8.

Do not use the poll() system call even if it's available, but use select(). This allows ftpls to be used together with the runsocks program from the socks5 reference implementation. Please note that you'll need a directly reachable name server anyway, as the DNS library in use does not support SOCKS (you can always use IP addresses).

This option was added in version 0.3.8.

Descend at most LEVEL directories deep. 0 means do not enter sub directories at all, 1 means enter sub-directories, but not their sub-directories, and so on. This option enables the --recursive option, too. The default is 2^32-1, meaning enter all.

This option was added in version 0.5.2.

EXAMPLES

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  ftpls \
  --html --title "CVS tree index by date" \
  --urlprefix ftp://ftp.ohse.de/uwe/cvs-trees/  \
  --newest \
  ftp://serak.ohse.de/uwe/cvs-trees \
  > SOMEWHERE/cvs-trees/index-by-date.html

AUTHOR

Uwe Ohse, uwe@ohse.de

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