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C.4 Downloading files

Before downloading files, there are a few things that you need to take care of.

Now you're ready to actually download the file. The command

get

is used for this, where is the name of the file on the remote machine, and is the name that you wish to give the file on your local machine. The argument is optional; by default, the local filename is the same as the remote one. However, if for example you're downloading the file README, and you already have a README in your local directory, you'll want to give a different so that the first one isn't overwritten.

For our example, to download the file README, we simply use

ftp> get README
200 PORT command successful.
150 ASCII data connection for README (128.84.181.1,4527) (1433 bytes).
#
226 ASCII Transfer complete.
local: README remote: README
1493 bytes received in 0.03 seconds (49 Kbytes/s)
ftp>



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