On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 06:34:33PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > The "ftp" client appears to be flakey, but the > tnftp client seems to work well, with tab-completion and other commands > performing as expected. (The ncftp client *almost* works, but > tab-completion doesn't see the blah.tgz.manifest file whereas it does see > the blah.tgz file, so it gives misleading info on tab-completion.)
lftp is also worth a look. If you're an experienced Unix shell user, lftp is almost ridiculously intuitive. (That said, I haven't seriously used FTP in many years... makes me wonder what you're actually doing with it.)