Why is my FTP output file blank?
- by Nathan Long
From the Windows command prompt, I have FTPd to a Windows web server. I can get a file, and I can see a directory listing with dir, but I want to save that list locally.
I tried dir > c:\somefile.txt, and the file is created, but it's blank. Same thing if I do ls > c:\somefile.txt.
The result is the same when I FTP from a Linux box.
FTP sends back the following:
200 PORT command successful
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls
226 Transfer complete