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NAME
       simpleftp - Rudimentary FTP client

SYNOPSIS
       simpleftp url [...]

DESCRIPTION
       simpleftp is a Perl script that provides basic support for fetching
       files with FTP in a batch oriented fashion.  It takes one or more FTP
       URLs on the command line.  The file(s) will be retrieved from the
       remote server and placed in the current directory with the same
       basename as on the remote; e.g.,
       <ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/CONFIG/active.gz> is stored as active.gz
       in the current directory.

       The script properly understands usernames, passwords and ports
       specified as follows:

           ftp://user:password@host:port/path/file

BUGS
       simpleftp is an extremely poor substitute for more complete programs
       like the freely available wget or ncftp utilities.  It was written only
       to provide elementary support in INN for non-interactive fetching of
       the files in <ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/pgpcontrol/> or
       <ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/CONFIG/> without requiring administrators
       to install yet another package.  Its shortcomings as a general purpose
       program are too numerous to mention, but one that stands out is that
       downloaded files by simpleftp override existing files with the same
       name in the local directory.

HISTORY
       Tossed off by David C Lawrence <tale@isc.org> for InterNetNews.
       Rewritten to use "Net::FTP" by Julien Elie.

       $Id: simpleftp.pod 8357 2009-02-27 17:56:00Z iulius $

SEE ALSO
       actsync(8).

INN 2.6.0                         2015-09-12                      SIMPLEFTP(1)