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   your new favourite fungus (duponin@udongein.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 17-Dec-2023 03:47:40 JST your new favourite fungus

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   • Rich Puchalsky :anarchism:
   @RichPuchalsky regardless if that's FTP(S) or SFTP, cURL is your best friend
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     Rich Puchalsky :anarchism: (richpuchalsky@kolektiva.social)'s status on Sunday, 17-Dec-2023 03:47:41 JST Rich Puchalsky :anarchism:

     Question for anyone who knows: what is the best way to download files from an ftp site via a bash shell?

     I used to know how to do this when there were literally ftp sites. Now I want to download files from https://www2.census.gov/, which also in some sense exists as ftp://ftp2.census.gov/ . It allows anonymous logins. I have no idea how to do that via sftp, though, and ftp itself no longer exists as a command in my bash shell. I can get files from this site via a browser, or via a desktop program that uses sftp/ssh like Fileziia, but I'm trying to copy files to my server directly.

     #ftp #bash

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