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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users FTP Question Post 59684 by S.Vishwanath on Wednesday 29th of December 2004 04:50:36 AM
Old 12-29-2004
Hi,

Yes, Google is absolutely Right.

The '!' allows you to have a (cofee-)break with the FTP and enter
in to shell from where you can return back (just for time being if you wish) with the exit command at the shell.

This takes you to shell while still ftp being running, and you can
return back by just typing exit at the console/shell prompt.
Since '!' takes you to the shell, and you can execute any shell
command as usual, you can do the same (execute any shell command)
with out completely coming out of FTP.

In simple, from the FTP application itself, you can execute any
valid shell command by just prefixing the command with a Bang ('!').

Ex:-

ftp> !ls -l
or
ftp> !who
or
ftp> !man ftp

etc.,

This way you can avoid un-necessarily going out and comming in
of FTP just for executing some command at shell.
And this is supported in all most all of the Unix Flavours.
And even Microsoft Windows also holds good with this concept.

Vishwa.
 

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NAME
Authen::Simple::FTP - Simple FTP authentication SYNOPSIS
use Authen::Simple::FTP; my $ftp = Authen::Simple::FTP->new( host => 'ftp.company.com' ); if ( $ftp->authenticate( $username, $password ) ) { # successfull authentication } # or as a mod_perl Authen handler PerlModule Authen::Simple::Apache PerlModule Authen::Simple::FTP PerlSetVar AuthenSimpleFTP_host "ftp.company.com" <Location /protected> PerlAuthenHandler Authen::Simple::FTP AuthType Basic AuthName "Protected Area" Require valid-user </Location> DESCRIPTION
Authenticate against a FTP service. METHODS
* new This method takes a hash of parameters. The following options are valid: * host Connection host, can be a hostname or IP number. Defaults to "localhost". host => 'ftp.company.com' host => '10.0.0.1' * port Connection port, default to 21. port => 21 * timeout Connection timeout, defaults to 60. timeout => 60 * log Any object that supports "debug", "info", "error" and "warn". log => Log::Log4perl->get_logger('Authen::Simple::FTP') * authenticate( $username, $password ) Returns true on success and false on failure. SEE ALSO
Authen::Simple. Net::FTP. AUTHOR
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