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Zftp Function System
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Description
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This describes the set of shell functions supplied with the source
distribution as an interface to the zftp builtin command, allowing you
to perform FTP operations from the shell command line or within
functions or scripts.  The interface is similar to a traditional FTP
client (e.g. the ftp command itself, see man page ftp(1)), but as it is
entirely done within the shell all the familiar completion, editing and
globbing features, and so on, are present, and macros are particularly
simple to write as they are just ordinary shell functions.

The prerequisite is that the zftp command, as described in Note: The
zsh/zftp Module , must be available in the version of zsh installed
at your site.  If the shell is configured to load new commands at run
time, it probably is: typing `zmodload zsh/zftp' will make sure (if
that runs silently, it has worked).  If this is not the case, it is
possible zftp was linked into the shell anyway: to test this, type
`which zftp' and if zftp is available you will get the message `zftp:
shell built-in command'.

Commands given directly with zftp builtin may be interspersed between
the functions in this suite; in a few cases, using zftp directly may
cause some of the status information stored in shell parameters to
become invalid.  Note in particular the description of the variables
$ZFTP_TMOUT, $ZFTP_PREFS and $ZFTP_VERBOSE for zftp.

Installation

Zftp Functions

Miscellaneous Features