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Re: ftp client's "ls" is "!ls"

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On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 2:02 AM, <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:

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> On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 04:44:17PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
> > I'm ftp'ing to a Dell/Quest K1000 System Management appliance, from a
> > Debian 9.0 box, and when I execute the command "ls" or "del" or do a
> > tab-completion, the commands act on the local directory instead of the
> > remote, so that "ls" acts like "!ls".
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> This is not how it's supposed to work. At least not ls (dir and ls should
> both list the remote's system directory contents).
>
> Which ftp client are you using?
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westk@westkent:~$ aptitude show ftp
Package: ftp
Version: 0.17-34

I should make a correction to my description of the problem.

"ls" by itself shows the remote directory files

"ls <filename> looks to the local directory (as does "ls [tab-completion]"
or "del <filename> | [tab-completion]"). Weird stuff.

-- 
Kent

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ftp client's "ls" is "!ls" Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2017-03-24 22:50 +0100
  Re: ftp client's "ls" is "!ls" <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-03-25 08:10 +0100
    Re: ftp client's "ls" is "!ls" Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2017-03-25 23:10 +0100
      Re: ftp client's "ls" is "!ls" <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-03-26 11:40 +0200
        Re: ftp client's "ls" is "!ls" Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2017-03-27 01:40 +0200
          Re: ftp client's "ls" is "!ls" Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-03-27 13:50 +0200
            Re: ftp client's "ls" is "!ls" Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2017-03-27 15:20 +0200

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