yafc - Yet another FTP client
yafc [options]
[proto://][user[:password]@]hostname[:port][/directory]
This manual documents Yafc. Yafc is quite a powerful
ftp client. It is a console interface to the ftp protocol. If you're looking
for a nice GUI client, Yafc is not for you. If you, however, use ftp often
and want a fast, powerful, friendly client Yafc is here for you...
Some of the features are recursive get/put/ls/rm, nohup transfers,
colored ls, cached directory listings, autologin and bookmarks, powerful
aliases and extensive tab completion.
- -a, --anon
- Try an anonymous login, ie login as "anonymous" with your email
address as password. Your email address is first looked for in the config
file ("anon_password"), then in the $EMAIL environment variable.
If it's not found, a guess is made from your user- and hostname.
- -d, --debug
- Print all messages sent to/from server.
- -D, --dump-rc
- Prints the default configuration file to standard output.
- -m MECH,
--mechanism=MECH
- Try security mechanism MECH when logging in to the host specified on the
command line. This will override any 'mech' options in yafcrc or
bookmarks. MECH is a colon-separated string, supported values are
"krb4", "krb5" and "none". The mechanisms
are tried in the order specified.
- -n, --norc
- Do not read the users configuration file. This will cause yafc to use its
default settings.
- -p, --noproxy
- Do not connect via the proxy. This should be used if connection to a host
on the local network.
- -q, --quiet
- Do not print the welcome message with copyright information when starting
Yafc.
- -r FILE,
--rcfile=FILE
- Read another configuration file.
- -t FILE,
--trace[=FILE]
- Enable creation of trace file. Trace files are mainly for debugging and
includes every response and command Yafc receives/sends. If FILE is
specified, use that file instead of the default trace file
(~/.yafc/trace/trace.pid, where pid is the process id number of
Yafc.) Trace files can grow quite large and can safely be deleted.
- -u, --noauto
- Do not login automagically to the host specified on the command line. You
can still use bookmark aliases, though.
- -U, --noalias
- As ---noauto, but bookmark aliases is disabled (for host on command
line).
- -v, --verbose
- Print all responses received (without response code.)
- -w,
--wait=TIME
- Use a different time to wait between connection attempts, in seconds. This
overrides the value set by "connect_wait_time" in the
configuration file.
- -W,
--workdir=DIR
- Use a different working directory for configuration files and temporary
files. Default is ~/.yafc.
- -V, --version
- Print version information on stdout and exit successfully.
- -h, --help
- Print a short help description on stdout and exit successfully.
The full documentation for yafc is maintained as a Texinfo
manual. If the info and yafc programs are properly installed
at your site, the command
- info yafc
should give you access to the complete manual.
Yafc was written by Martin Hedenfalk <mhe@home.se>. This
manual page was created from the Texinfo documentation by Decklin Foster
<decklin@red-bean.com> for the Debian system.