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wdel - A wget-like program for deleting files on ftp servers
SYNOPSIS
wdel [option]... [URL [file]...]...
DESCRIPTION
Wdel is a free utility that is able to delete files on an ftp server.
Wdel is non-interactive and background-capable. It can delete files or whole directories and is meant to be a robust client even for unsta-
ble connections and will therefore retry to delete a file, if the connection broke.
Wdel supports connections through proxies, allowing you to use it in an environment that can access the internet only via a proxy or to
provide anonymity by hiding your ip-address to the server. For SOCKSv5-proxies Wdel supports also listening mode, allowing you to use
port-mode ftp through a proxy (useful if the remote ftp is behind a firewall or a gateway).
URL-Input-Handling
URLs are recognized by the ftp://-prefix.
Wdel first reads the URLs from the command line, and associates every file with the last URL until a new URL is found (note that this is
different from wput). Then, it reads the --input-file (if any) and parses the URLs in the same way. So you can specify e.g. one URL and
read all filenames from a file.
If there are no explicit filenames given for a singe URL, then the last part of the URL is taken to be the file/directory to be deleted. If
there are filenames, then the last part of the URL is considered to be the directory where these files reside in. Slashes at the end of the
URL or the filename (in case it is a directory to be deleted) are ignored.
OPTIONS
There are no special options introduced by Wdel. All of Wput's options may be supplied, although some will not be of any effect because
they do not apply for the process of deleting files. Please see wput(1) for a description of the options.
SEE ALSO
Many options can be set in a wputrc file. For its documentation consult the sample file provided by Wput.
wput(1) describes all setable options. Not all apply for wdel too though.
AUTHOR
Wdel is written by Hagen Fritsch <fritsch+wdel-man@in.tum.de> and Jan Larres <jan@majutsushi.net>
Hagen Fritsch, Jan Larres 0.6.2 wdel(1)
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ftpls(1) General Commands Manual ftpls(1)
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
Login options
-u, --user=NAME
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.
-p, --pass=PASSWORD
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.
--account=ACCOUNT
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.
--tries=NUMBER
Number of tries to connect and log in. The default is 1, meaning that ftpls will give up after the first error.
--login-sleep=NUMBER
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.
Output mode options
-h, --html
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.
-m, --machine
Create machine parsable output.
-t, --title=TEXT
Title text to use on the HTML output.
-U, --urlprefix=URL
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-dir
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.
SORTING
-a, --alpha
sort alphabetical.
-z, --omega
sort reverse alphabetical.
-n, --newest
sort youngest first.
-o, --oldest
sort oldest first.
-s, --shortest
sort shortest first.
-l, --longest
sort longest first.
Other options
--ascii-listings
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.
-L, --list-options=OPTS
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.
--interactive
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.
-R, --recursive
Do a recursive directory listing by first printing one directory, including sub directory names, and then traversing into sub
directories.
--raw
Output directory listings in the original format and sort order.
-T, --timeout=SECONDS
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.
--force-select
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.
--max-depth
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
Generate a HTML index page
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
SEE ALSO ftpcopy(1).
The homepage may be more up-to-date, see
http://www.ohse.de/uwe/ftpcopy.html.
ftpcopy 0.5.2 ftpls(1)