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NAME

       ftpls - generate a ftp directory listing.

SYNOPSIS

       ftpls [options] host[:port] [remotedir]
          or: ftpls [options] URL

DESCRIPTION

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

OPTIONS

   Connect / login / username / password options:
       -u, --user=NAME
              Use NAME to login on the ftp server.
              The  default  is  ‘anonymous’.  Use  an  empty name to force the
              program to not log in.

       -p, --pass=PASSWORD
              Use PASS as password to login on the ftp server.
              The default is ‘anonymous@invalid.example’. If an empty password
              is given the programm will not send a password to the server.

       --account=ACCOUNT
              Send ACCOUNT as account name during login phase.
              Note: this is _not_ the user name, but the name of what could be
              called a subaccount implemented by a few servers. 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
              --user option first.

       --tries=ARG
              Number of tries to connect and log in.
              The  default  is  1, meaning that the program will give up after
              the first error.
              This option was added in version 0.3.0.

       --data-connect-retries=ARG
              Number of tries to connect to data port.
              The program will try to reach the data port  (for  retrieval  of
              listings  or  data)  that many times and will give up after that
              many errors in a row. The default is 5, meaning that the program
              will give up after the fifth error.
              This option was added in version 0.6.6. The old behaviour was to
              give up after the first error.

       --login-sleep=ARG
              Seconds to sleep after a failed login.
              More precisely: the program will fall to  sleep  for  this  many
              seconds  after a try to connect or login has failed. The default
              is 5. A 0 is treated as 1, and abuse, especially  together  with
              --tries, is likely to annory the servers adminstrators.
              This option was added in version 0.4.5.

       -4, --v4
              Only use IPv4, even if v6 is available.
              This  option  effectively  disallows the use of IPv6, except for
              DNS queries.
              It was added in version 0.6.0.

       -6, --v6
              Only use IPv6, even if v4 is available.
              This option effectively disallows the use of  IPv4,  except  for
              DNS queries.
              It was added in version 0.6.0.

   Operational options:
       --interactive
              Read directories from stdin.
              This  option  tells ftpls to ignore any directories given on the
              command line, and to read  the  directories  to  list  from  the
              standard  input, reading one directory per line.ftpls will print
              an END-OF-COPY line after each operation. Do not use this option
              together with --html.
              This  option  was  added in version 0.3.6 and will be removed in
              future versions, unless someone objects.

       -T, --timeout=SECONDS
              Timeout to use for network read/write.
              The default is 30 seconds and is usually sufficient.
              This option was added in version 0.3.8.

       -R, --recursive
              Do recursive listing.
              This option makes ftpls descend through the directory  hierarchy
              and  list  all  the  directories and files it files. A top level
              directories content will be printed completely  before  the  sub
              directories will be traversed.

       --raw  Raw output in original format.
              This will preserve the original format and sort order.

       --max-depth=ARG
              Descend at most LEVEL directories.
                0 means ‘do not enter sub directories at all’,
                1 means ‘enter sub-directories, but not their sub-directories’.
              The default is 2^32-1 meaning ‘enter all’.
              This option enables the --recursive option.

   Sorting options:
       -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.

   Output options:
       -h, --html
              Create HTML index.
              The index will contain 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 sub directory names.
              This  option makes ftpls print the name of a directory before it
              lists it’s  content.  Note  that  the  name  of  the  top  level
              directory  of  each  listing will not be printed. This option is
              meant to be used together with --raw, and will not create useful
              output together with --html.

   Workaround options:
       --ascii-listings
              Do directory listings in ASCII 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 (usually on one line):
              ‘fatal:  received  unwanted answer to LIST: 426 Data connection:
              Illegal seek.’
              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  ftpcopy  does not cope well with recursive
              directory listings.
              This option was added in version 0.3.0.

       --allow-pasv-ip=IP4
              Allow data connections to the address IP4.
              Normally ftpls only accepts data connections to the IP addresses
              it  received  as an answer to the DNS request, or the IP address
              in the URL. Sometimes this is not enough, especially when NAT or
              masquerading  are  active.  ftpcopy then prints an error message
              ‘illegal redirect by FTP server’. With this option, which may be
              given  more  than  once, you can add additional addresses to the
              internal list of allowed data connection targets. IP4 has to  be
              an  IPv4  address  or  a  list  of  IPv4 addresses, separated by
              commas.
              The environment variable FTPCOPY_ALLOW_PASV_IP serves  the  same
              purpose.
              Note: Do not use this option without thinking: FTP redirects may
              be used to launch denial of  service  attacks  against  innocent
              targets.
              This option was added in version 0.6.1.

       --force-select
              Use select, not poll.
              Do  not  use  the poll() system call even if it’s available, but
              use select()  instead.  This  allows  the  program  to  be  used
              together with runsocks from the socks5 reference implementation.
              Please note that you will 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.

   Help options:
       --examples
              Show usage examples.

       --see-also
              Where to find related information.

       --version
              Show version: ftpls (ftpcopy) 0.6.7.

       --help Show a list of options or the long help on one.
              The use with an argument shows the long help text
              of that option, without an argument it will list
              all options.

       --longhelp
              Show longer help texts for all or one option.

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

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2003 Uwe Ohse.

       The software comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

       This package is published unter the terms of  the  GNU  General  Public
       License  version 2. Later versions of the GPL may or may not apply, see
       http://www.ohse.de/uwe/licenses/

AUTHOR

       Uwe Ohse, <uwe@ohse.de>.

MORE INFORMATION

       Please report bugs to <ftpcopy@lists.ohse.de>

SEE ALSO

       ftpcopy(1) creates and maintains ftp mirrors.

       The ftpcopy package has a mailing list. Send an empty mail to <ftpcopy-
       subscribe@lists.ohse.de> to subscribe to it.

       The ftpcopy homepage is at
         http://www.ohse.de/uwe/ftpcopy.html

                                  2007-12-12                          ftpls(1)