Non-interactive command-line FTP client alternative to weex

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Published on 2009-06-05T12:45:29Z Indexed on 2010/04/15 10:03 UTC
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Hi,

I'm looking for a good non-interactive, command line FTP client to be run from a Rakefile. Like Weex, but better. Weex has different problems (for me):

It stores its config file in my home dir. I want the FTP config to be part of my project and weex doesn't have a --config-file option or something.
The behavior of ignoring files seems to be completely buggy. It doesn't remove files which it should, it doesn't let me specify relative paths, even though I do it according to the man page's instructions, etc. I've been struggling with it for an hour now and it is just completely inexplicable.

I tried running rsync over FTPFS/FUSE, but that is dead slow because FTP doesn't store mtimes, which makes rsync diff every file. Plus, there are some refresh problems and other bugs that cause access failure (http://bugs.gentoo.org/208168).

I'm stuck with FTP, unfortunately. Any help is appreciated.

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