“No matter what Linux distribution you are using, chances are
you’ll find more than one graphical FTP client in its repositories,
but if you are looking for a powerful command-line FTP tool, your
best bet is lftp. Of course, you can always use the good old ftp
command, but lftp takes the task of managing files and directories
using the FTP protocol to a new level. To see what I mean, let’s
use lftp to write a script that creates a local backup copy of a
Web site.“To write the script, you need to know how to use lftp to
connect to an FTP server and synchronize a remote directory with a
local one…”
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