lavv17/lftp

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

LFTP is a sophisticated command-line file transfer program supporting FTP, HTTP/HTTPS, SFTP, FISH, and BitTorrent protocols. It offers shell-like job control, bookmarks, built-in mirroring, parallel transfers, and automatic reconnect/retry designed for reliability.

Use cases

• mirror a remote ftp site to local disk
• upload files over sftp from the command line
• resume interrupted downloads with reget
• download torrents from the terminal
• transfer files between two ftp servers without downloading locally
• script automated file transfers over ftps
• throttle transfer bandwidth for large syncs

When to choose

• you need a reliable scriptable CLI client for ftp/sftp/http transfers
• you want recursive mirroring with resume and retry built in
• you need to transfer between servers or handle flaky connections automatically

When to avoid

• you need a GUI file transfer client
• you only need simple scp/rsync-style ssh transfers where rsync is a better fit
• you need modern cloud storage protocols like S3

Facets

cli-tool · maturity maintenance

http-client cli developer-tools files networking developer-tools bsd cli cross-platform ftp sftp file-transfer bittorrent mirror ftps webdav command-line linux macos

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