Linux.com: CLI Magic: File Transfer Protocol

“Wake up, you goodness-to-GUI slacksters! It’s time to get up
and get out of that hammock and put your feet on the ground and
your hands on the CLI. This week we’re going to talk about data in
motion. Taking a file from one place on the network. Putting it
someplace else. Most often today some form of ftp is used to do
those things. It’s been part of the Internet since there was an
Internet,

“If you’re interested in ftp history, you might want to read RFC
959. It’s a great source of background information. In my opinion,
there are very few–if any–programs in the history of computing
that have made a greater contribution to the global spread of free
software than ftp…”

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