Using FTP from the command line

[Heike C. Zimmerer]

"Dotan Cohen" <dotancohen at gmail.com> writes:

> I am getting more comfortable on the command line and I use FTP there
> often. However, I have one issue with it: How can one browse the local
> filesystem while in FTP mode? All I could find is lcd, for 'local cd'.
> But how can I 'ls' and 'pwd' on the _local_ box while I am in FTP
> mode? Note that I cannot use a graphical FTP client for this project,
> as the machine has no X. Thanks.

You can launch any command from the ftp command line by prepending an
exclamation mark (shell escape), e.g. !ls or !pwd.  Or try one of the
more powerful ftp clients (I prefer ncftp).