Ftp

FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is a client/server way of exposing/downloading files.
This documentation refers to the FTP commandline client.

Documentation

man ftp

https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ftp&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+12.1-RELEASE+and+Ports&arch=default&format=html

Locations

~/.netrc

login credentials

Commands

# connect to ftp
ftp host [port]

# ================
# Command Prefixes
# ================

# local variations of remote commands
# are prefixed with 'l'
#
cd  /remote/dir
lcd /local/dir

# multi variations of remote commands
# are prefixed with 'm'
put file.txt
mput file1.txt file2.txt ..

# ==========
# Connection
# ==========
# ftp commands
bye  # exit ftp session

# ===========
# navigation
# ===========
cd <dir>               # cd
cdup                   # cd to parent dir
ls                     # list directory contents
pwd                    # print working directory

# ========
# download
# ========
get <file> [<localfile>]    # download file
newer <file> [<localfile>]  # download file only if newer
fget <localfile>            # download files listed in newline separated <localfile>

# ======
# upload
# ======
put <file> [<remotefile>]   # upload a file
mput

# ====
# misc
# ====
delete <file>              # delete single file
mdelete <file> <file>      # delete multiple remote files
rename <old> <new>         # rename file
chmod <mode> <file>        # change file permissions