undertakingyou

So, I have used all sorts of different FTP clients. I use them at work to get stuff to and from our web-server as I make changes to our website. So, just to show the list here are the names that I can think of: FireFTP, WsFTP, lftp, ftp (the actual cli), jftp, macromedia’s built in ftp client, and some others that I can’t remember the name of. But the one that I use now is yafc.

yafc stands for Yet Another FTP Client. But it really is good. Some of the features that I like are:
* Tab completion for both client side content and server side content. The server side is a little slow the first time, but after that it is really easy to move around with the tab completion stuff.
* Implied mput and mget. So, put actually puts all the listed files. Some with get. And, get * will get everything. Further get -r * will recursively get all directories so if you are picking up a new site this is an easy way to grab it all.
* Overwrite conformation. If I put a file that is already there it asks me if I really want to do that. I think this is nice for a couple of things. First, it tells you the date and time of the modifications for both the local and remote files. So, if multiple people are working on the site you would know if they made the change.
* Shows working path. Now there may be a sort of .bashrc file for ftp but, I like that is shows at the cursor my working path.

So, for what it is worth, I am thinking yafc is the best ftp client ever.