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Authored by: davidmorr on Jan 17, '04 06:20:12AM

Command line FTP has a way to tell you the progress of the file transfer without needing to look anywhere else. No, it does not tell you exactly the number of bytes transerred, but it's usually good enough.

Before you transfer a file, type

hash

This will print a # for each 1024 bytes transferred while the file is being transferred, so it's like a progress bar. You can change the number of bytes by typing

hash nnnnnn

where nnnnnn is the number of bytes a hash symbol is to represent.

See the man page for ftp for more info. There are lots of other commands too.

David



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