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NAME

zshzftpsys - zftp function front-end

DESCRIPTION

This describes the set of shell functions supplied with the

source distribution as an interface to the zftp builtin com-

mand, allowing you to perform FTP operations from the shell command line or within functions or scripts. The interface is similar to a traditional FTP client (e.g. the ftp command itself, see ftp(1)), but as it is entirely done within the shell all the familiar completion, editing and globbing

features, and so on, are present, and macros are particu-

larly simple to write as they are just ordinary shell func-

tions. The prerequisite is that the zftp command, as described in zshmodules(1) , must be available in the version of zsh installed at your site. If the shell is configured to load new commands at run time, it probably is: typing `zmodload zsh/zftp' will make sure (if that runs silently, it has worked). If this is not the case, it is possible zftp was linked into the shell anyway: to test this, type `which zftp' and if zftp is available you will get the message

`zftp: shell built-in command'.

Commands given directly with zftp builtin may be inter-

spersed between the functions in this suite; in a few cases, using zftp directly may cause some of the status information

stored in shell parameters to become invalid. Note in par-

ticular the description of the variables $ZFTP_TMOUT,

$ZFTP_PREFS and $ZFTP_VERBOSE for zftp.

INSTALLATION You should make sure all the functions from the

Functions/Zftp directory of the source distribution are available; they all begin with the two letters `zf'. They may already have been installed on your system; otherwise, you will need to find them and copy them. The directory

should appear as one of the elements of the $fpath array

(this should already be the case if they were installed), and at least the function zfinit should be autoloaded; it will autoload the rest. Finally, to initialize the use of

the system you need to call the zfinit function. The fol-

lowing code in your .zshrc will arrange for this; assume the functions are stored in the directory ~/myfns:

fpath=(~/myfns $fpath)

autoload -U zfinit

zfinit Note that zfinit assumes you are using the zmodload method to load the zftp command. If it is already built into the zsh 4.3.10 Last change: June 1, 2009 1 User Commands ZSHZFTPSYS(1)

shell, change zfinit to zfinit -n. It is helpful (though

not essential) if the call to zfinit appears after any code to initialize the new completion system, else unnecessary compctl commands will be given. FUNCTIONS The sequence of operations in performing a file transfer is essentially the same as that in a standard FTP client. Note that, due to a quirk of the shell's getopts builtin, for

those functions that handle options you must use `--' rather

than `-' to ensure the remaining arguments are treated

literally (a single `-' is treated as an argument).

Opening a connection zfparams [ host [ user [ password ... ] ] ] Set or show the parameters for a future zfopen with no arguments. If no arguments are given, the current parameters are displayed (the password will be shown as a line of asterisks). If a host is given, and either the user or password is not, they will be prompted for; also, any parameter given as `?' will be prompted for, and if the `?' is followed by a string, that will be used as the prompt. As zfopen calls zfparams to store the parameters, this usually need not be called directly.

A single argument `-' will delete the stored parame-

ters. This will also cause the memory of the last directory (and so on) on the other host to be deleted.

zfopen [ -1 ] [ host [ user [ password [ account ] ] ] ]

If host is present, open a connection to that host under username user with password password (and, on the rare occasions when it is necessary, account account). If a necessary parameter is missing or given as `?' it will be prompted for. If host is not present, use a previously stored set of parameters.

If the command was successful, and the terminal is com-

patible with xterm or is sun-cmd, a summary will appear

in the title bar, giving the local host:directory and

the remote host:directory; this is handled by the func-

tion zftp_chpwd, described below.

Normally, the host, user and password are internally

recorded for later re-opening, either by a zfopen with

no arguments, or automatically (see below). With the

option `-1', no information is stored. Also, if an

open command with arguments failed, the parameters will not be retained (and any previous parameters will also

be deleted). A zfopen on its own, or a zfopen -1,

never alters the stored parameters. zsh 4.3.10 Last change: June 1, 2009 2 User Commands ZSHZFTPSYS(1) Both zfopen and zfanon (but not zfparams) understand

URLs of the form ftp://host/path... as meaning to con-

nect to the host, then change directory to path (which must be a directory, not a file). The `ftp://' can be

omitted; the trailing `/' is enough to trigger recogni-

tion of the path. Note prefixes other than `ftp:' are not recognized, and that all characters after the first slash beyond host are significant in path.

zfanon [ -1 ] host

Open a connection host for anonymous FTP. The username used is `anonymous'. The password (which will be reported the first time) is generated as user@host;

this is then stored in the shell parameter $EMAIL_ADDR

which can alternatively be set manually to a suitable string. Directory management zfcd [ dir ]

zfcd -

zfcd old new Change the current directory on the remote server: this is implemented to have many of the features of the shell builtin cd. In the first form with dir present, change to the

directory dir. The command `zfcd ..' is treated spe-

cially, so is guaranteed to work on non-UNIX servers

(note this is handled internally by zftp). If dir is omitted, has the effect of `zfcd ~'. The second form changes to the directory previously current. The third form attempts to change the current directory by replacing the first occurrence of the string old with the string new in the current directory. Note that in this command, and indeed anywhere a remote filename is expected, the string which on the local host corresponds to `~' is converted back to a `~' before being passed to the remote machine. This is convenient because of the way expansion is performed on the command line before zfcd receives a string. For example, suppose the command is `zfcd ~/foo'. The shell will expand this to a full path such as `zfcd /home/user2/pws/foo'. At this stage, zfcd recognises the initial path as corresponding to `~' and will send the directory to the remote host as ~/foo, so that the `~' will be expanded by the server to the correct remote host directory. Other named directories of the form `~name' are not treated in this fashion. zsh 4.3.10 Last change: June 1, 2009 3 User Commands ZSHZFTPSYS(1) zfhere Change directory on the remote server to the one

corresponding to the current local directory, with spe-

cial handling of `~' as in zfcd. For example, if the

current local directory is ~/foo/bar, then zfhere per-

forms the effect of `zfcd ~/foo/bar'.

zfdir [ -rfd ] [ - ] [ dir-options ] [ dir ]

Produce a long directory listing. The arguments

dir-options and dir are passed directly to the server

and their effect is implementation dependent, but specifying a particular remote directory dir is usually possible. The output is passed through a pager given

by the environment variable $PAGER, or `more' if that

is not set.

The directory is usually cached for re-use. In fact,

two caches are maintained. One is for use when there

is no dir-options or dir, i.e. a full listing of the

current remote directory; it is flushed when the current remote directory changes. The other is kept for repeated use of zfdir with the same arguments; for example, repeated use of `zfdir /pub/gnu' will only require the directory to be retrieved on the first

call. Alternatively, this cache can be re-viewed with

the -r option. As relative directories will confuse

zfdir, the -f option can be used to force the cache to

be flushed before the directory is listed. The option

-d will delete both caches without showing a directory

listing; it will also delete the cache of file names in the current remote directory, if any.

zfls [ ls-options ] [ dir ]

List files on the remote server. With no arguments, this will produce a simple list of file names for the current remote directory. Any arguments are passed directly to the server. No pager and no caching is used. Status commands zftype [ type ] With no arguments, show the type of data to be

transferred, usually ASCII or binary. With an argu-

ment, change the type: the types `A' or `ASCII' for ASCII data and `B' or `BINARY', `I' or `IMAGE' for

binary data are understood case-insensitively.

zfstat [ -v ]

Show the status of the current or last connection, as well as the status of some of zftp's status variables.

With the -v option, a more verbose listing is produced

by querying the server for its version of events, too. zsh 4.3.10 Last change: June 1, 2009 4 User Commands ZSHZFTPSYS(1) Retrieving files The commands for retrieving files all take at least two

options. -G suppresses remote filename expansion which would

otherwise be performed (see below for a more detailed

description of that). -t attempts to set the modification

time of the local file to that of the remote file: this

requires version 5 of perl, see the description of the func-

tion zfrtime below for more information.

zfget [ -Gtc ] file1 ...

Retrieve all the listed files file1 ... one at a time from the remote server. If a file contains a `/', the full name is passed to the remote server, but the file is stored locally under the name given by the part

after the final `/'. The option -c (cat) forces all

files to be sent as a single stream to standard output;

in this case the -t option has no effect.

zfuget [ -Gvst ] file1 ...

As zfget, but only retrieve files where the version on the remote server is newer (has a later modification time), or where the local file does not exist. If the remote file is older but the files have different sizes, or if the sizes are the same but the remote file is newer, the user will usually be queried. With the

option -s, the command runs silently and will always

retrieve the file in either of those two cases. With

the option -v, the command prints more information

about the files while it is working out whether or not to transfer them.

zfcget [ -Gt ] file1 ...

As zfget, but if any of the local files exists, and is shorter than the corresponding remote file, the command assumes that it is the result of a partially completed transfer and attempts to transfer the rest of the file.

This is useful on a poor connection which keeps fail-

ing. Note that this requires a commonly implemented, but

non-standard, version of the FTP protocol, so is not

guaranteed to work on all servers.

zfgcp [ -Gt ] remote-file local-file

zfgcp [ -Gt ] rfile1 ... ldir

This retrieves files from the remote server with argu-

ments behaving similarly to the cp command.

In the first form, copy remote-file from the server to

the local file local-file.

zsh 4.3.10 Last change: June 1, 2009 5 User Commands ZSHZFTPSYS(1) In the second form, copy all the remote files rfile1 ... into the local directory ldir retaining the same basenames. This assumes UNIX directory semantics. Sending files

zfput [ -r ] file1 ...

Send all the file1 ... given separately to the remote server. If a filename contains a `/', the full filename is used locally to find the file, but only the basename is used for the remote file name.

With the option -r, if any of the files are directories

they are sent recursively with all their subdirec-

tories, including files beginning with `.'. This requires that the remote machine understand UNIX file semantics, since `/' is used as a directory separator.

zfuput [ -vs ] file1 ...

As zfput, but only send files which are newer than their local equivalents, or if the remote file does not exist. The logic is the same as for zfuget, but reversed between local and remote files. zfcput file1 ... As zfput, but if any remote file already exists and is shorter than the local equivalent, assume it is the result of an incomplete transfer and send the rest of the file to append to the existing part. As the FTP append command is part of the standard set, this is in principle more likely to work than zfcget.

zfpcp local-file remote-file

zfpcp lfile1 ... rdir This sends files to the remote server with arguments behaving similarly to the cp command.

With two arguments, copy local-file to the server as

remote-file.

With more than two arguments, copy all the local files lfile1 ... into the existing remote directory rdir

retaining the same basenames. This assumes UNIX direc-

tory semantics. A problem arises if you attempt to use zfpcp lfile1 rdir, i.e. the second form of copying but with two arguments, as the command has no simple way of knowing if rdir corresponds to a directory or a filename. It attempts to resolve this in various ways. First, if the rdir argument is `.' or `..' or ends in a slash, it

is assumed to be a directory. Secondly, if the opera-

tion of copying to a remote file in the first form zsh 4.3.10 Last change: June 1, 2009 6 User Commands ZSHZFTPSYS(1) failed, and the remote server sends back the expected failure code 553 and a reply including the string `Is a directory', then zfpcp will retry using the second form. Closing the connection zfclose Close the connection. Session management

zfsession [ -lvod ] [ sessname ]

Allows you to manage multiple FTP sessions at once. By default, connections take place in a session called `default'; by giving the command `zfsession sessname' you can change to a new or existing session with a name

of your choice. The new session remembers its own con-

nection, as well as associated shell parameters, and also the host/user parameters set by zfparams. Hence you can have different sessions set up to connect to different hosts, each remembering the appropriate host, user and password. With no arguments, zfsession prints the name of the

current session; with the option -l it lists all ses-

sions which currently exist, and with the option -v it

gives a verbose list showing the host and directory for each session, where the current session is marked with

an asterisk. With -o, it will switch to the most

recent previous session.

With -d, the given session (or else the current one) is

removed; everything to do with it is completely forgot-

ten. If it was the only session, a new session called `default' is created and made current. It is safest not to delete sessions while background commands using zftp are active. zftransfer sess1:file1 sess2:file2 Transfer files between two sessions; no local copy is made. The file is read from the session sess1 as file1 and written to session sess2 as file file2; file1 and file2 may be relative to the current directories of the session. Either sess1 or sess2 may be omitted (though the colon should be retained if there is a possibility of a colon appearing in the file name) and defaults to the current session; file2 may be omitted or may end with a slash, in which case the basename of file1 will

be added. The sessions sess1 and sess2 must be dis-

tinct. The operation is performed using pipes, so it is required that the connections still be valid in a zsh 4.3.10 Last change: June 1, 2009 7 User Commands ZSHZFTPSYS(1) subshell, which is not the case under versions of some operating systems, presumably due to a system bug. Bookmarks The two functions zfmark and zfgoto allow you to `bookmark' the present location (host, user and directory) of the current FTP connection for later use. The file to be used

for storing and retrieving bookmarks is given by the parame-

ter $ZFTP_BMFILE; if not set when one of the two functions

is called, it will be set to the file .zfbkmarks in the directory where your zsh startup files live (usually ~). zfmark [ bookmark ] If given an argument, mark the current host, user and directory under the name bookmark for later use by zfgoto. If there is no connection open, use the values for the last connection immediately before it was closed; it is an error if there was none. Any existing bookmark under the same name will be silently replaced. If not given an argument, list the existing bookmarks and the points to which they refer in the form user@host:directory; this is the format in which they are stored, and the file may be edited directly.

zfgoto [ -n ] bookmark

Return to the location given by bookmark, as previously set by zfmark. If the location has user `ftp' or `anonymous', open the connection with zfanon, so that

no password is required. If the user and host parame-

ters match those stored for the current session, if any, those will be used, and again no password is required. Otherwise a password will be prompted for.

With the option -n, the bookmark is taken to be a nick-

name stored by the ncftp program in its bookmark file,

which is assumed to be ~/.ncftp/bookmarks. The func-

tion works identically in other ways. Note that there is no mechanism for adding or modifying ncftp bookmarks from the zftp functions. Other functions Mostly, these functions will not be called directly (apart from zfinit), but are described here for completeness. You

may wish to alter zftp_chpwd and zftp_progress, in particu-

lar.

zfinit [ -n ]

As described above, this is used to initialize the zftp

function system. The -n option should be used if the

zftp command is already built into the shell. zsh 4.3.10 Last change: June 1, 2009 8 User Commands ZSHZFTPSYS(1)

zfautocheck [ -dn ]

This function is called to implement automatic reopen-

ing behaviour, as described in more detail below. The

options must appear in the first argument; -n prevents

the command from changing to the old directory, while

-d prevents it from setting the variable do_close,

which it otherwise does as a flag for automatically closing the connection after a transfer. The host and

directory for the last session are stored in the vari-

able $zflastsession, but the internal

host/user/password parameters must also be correctly set.

zfcd_match prefix suffix

This performs matching for completion of remote direc-

tory names. If the remote server is UNIX, it will attempt to persuade the server to list the remote directory with subdirectories marked, which usually works but is not guaranteed. On other hosts it simply

calls zfget_match and hence completes all files, not

just directories. On some systems, directories may not even look like filenames.

zfget_match prefix suffix

This performs matching for completion of remote filenames. It caches files for the current directory

(only) in the shell parameter $zftp_fcache. It is in

the form to be called by the -K option of compctl, but

also works when called from a widget-style completion

function with prefix and suffix set appropriately. zfrglob varname Perform remote globbing, as describes in more detail below. varname is the name of a variable containing the pattern to be expanded; if there were any matches, the same variable will be set to the expanded set of filenames on return. zfrtime lfile rfile [ time ] Set the local file lfile to have the same modification time as the remote file rfile, or the explicit time time in FTP format CCYYMMDDhhmmSS for the GMT timezone. Currently this requires perl version 5 to perform the

conversion from GMT to local time. This is unfor-

tunately difficult to do using shell code alone.

zftp_chpwd

This function is called every time a connection is opened, or closed, or the remote directory changes. This version alters the title bar of an

xterm-compatible or sun-cmd terminal emulator to

zsh 4.3.10 Last change: June 1, 2009 9 User Commands ZSHZFTPSYS(1) reflect the local and remote hostnames and current directories. It works best when combined with the function chpwd. In particular, a function of the form chpwd() {

if [[ -n $ZFTP_USER ]]; then

zftp_chpwd

else

# usual chpwd e.g put host:directory in title bar

fi } fits in well.

zftp_progress

This function shows the status of the transfer. It will not write anything unless the output is going to a

terminal; however, if you transfer files in the back-

ground, you should turn off progress reports by hand using `zstyle ':zftp:*' progress none'. Note also that if you alter it, any output must be to standard error, as standard output may be a file being received. The form of the progress meter, or whether it is used at all, can be configured without altering the function, as described in the next section. zffcache This is used to implement caching of files in the current directory for each session separately. It is

used by zfget_match and zfrglob.

MISCELLANEOUS FEATURES Configuration Various styles are available using the standard shell style mechanism, described in zshmodules(1). Briefly, the command `zstyle ':zftp:*' style value ...'. defines the style to have value value; more than one value may be given, although that is not useful in the cases described here. These

values will then be used throughout the zftp function sys-

tem. For more precise control, the first argument, which gives a context in which the style applies, can be modified to include a particular function, as for example `:zftp:zfget': the style will then have the given value only

in the zfget function. Values for the same style in dif-

ferent contexts may be set; the most specific function will be used, where strings are held to be more specific than patterns, and longer patterns and shorter patterns. Note that only the top level function name, as called by the

user, is used; calling of lower level functions is tran-

sparent to the user. Hence modifications to the title bar

in zftp_chpwd use the contexts :zftp:zfopen, :zftp:zfcd,

etc., depending where it was called from. The following zsh 4.3.10 Last change: June 1, 2009 10 User Commands ZSHZFTPSYS(1) styles are understood: progress

Controls the way that zftp_progress reports on the pro-

gress of a transfer. If empty, unset, or `none', no progress report is made; if `bar' a growing bar of inverse video is shown; if `percent' (or any other

string, though this may change in future), the percen-

tage of the file transferred is shown. The bar meter requires that the width of the terminal be available

via the $COLUMNS parameter (normally this is set

automatically). If the size of the file being transferred is not available, bar and percent meters will simply show the number of bytes transferred so far. When zfinit is run, if this style is not defined for the context :zftp:*, it will be set to `bar'. update Specifies the minimum time interval between updates of the progress meter in seconds. No update is made unless new data has been received, so the actual time

interval is limited only by $ZFTP_TIMEOUT.

As described for progress, zfinit will force this to default to 1.

remote-glob

If set to `1', `yes' or `true', filename generation (globbing) is performed on the remote machine instead of by zsh itself; see below. titlebar

If set to `1', `yes' or `true', zftp_chpwd will put the

remote host and remote directory into the titlebar of

terminal emulators such as xterm or sun-cmd that allow

this. As described for progress, zfinit will force this to default to 1. chpwd

If set to `1' `yes' or `true', zftp_chpwd will call the

function chpwd when a connection is closed. This is useful if the remote host details were put into the

terminal title bar by zftp_chpwd and your usual chpwd

also modifies the title bar. When zfinit is run, it will determine whether chpwd exists and if so it will set the default value for the style to 1 if none exists already. zsh 4.3.10 Last change: June 1, 2009 11 User Commands ZSHZFTPSYS(1) Note that there is also an associative array zfconfig which contains values used by the function system. This should not be modified or overwritten. Remote globbing The commands for retrieving files usually perform filename generation (globbing) on their arguments; this can be turned

off by passing the option -G to each of the commands. Nor-

mally this operates by retrieving a complete list of files for the directory in question, then matching these locally against the pattern supplied. This has the advantage that the full range of zsh patterns (respecting the setting of

the option EXTENDED_GLOB) can be used. However, it means

that the directory part of a filename will not be expanded and must be given exactly. If the remote server does not support the UNIX directory semantics, directory handling is problematic and it is recommended that globbing only be used within the current directory. The list of files in the current directory, if retrieved, will be cached, so that

subsequent globs in the same directory without an interven-

ing zfcd are much faster.

If the remote-glob style (see above) is set, globbing is

instead performed on the remote host: the server is asked for a list of matching files. This is highly dependent on how the server is implemented, though typically UNIX servers will provide support for basic glob patterns. This may in some cases be faster, as it avoids retrieving the entire list of directory contents. Automatic and temporary reopening As described for the zfopen command, a subsequent zfopen with no parameters will reopen the connection to the last

host (this includes connections made with the zfanon com-

mand). Opened in this fashion, the connection starts in the

default remote directory and will remain open until expli-

citly closed.

Automatic re-opening is also available. If a connection is

not currently open and a command requiring a connection is given, the last connection is implicitly reopened. In this case the directory which was current when the connection was closed again becomes the current directory (unless, of course, the command given changes it). Automatic reopening will also take place if the connection was close by the remote server for whatever reason (e.g. a timeout). It is

not available if the -1 option to zfopen or zfanon was used.

Furthermore, if the command issued is a file transfer, the connection will be closed after the transfer is finished,

hence providing a one-shot mode for transfers. This does

not apply to directory changing or listing commands; for zsh 4.3.10 Last change: June 1, 2009 12 User Commands ZSHZFTPSYS(1) example a zfdir may reopen a connection but will leave it open. Also, automatic closure will only ever happen in the

same command as automatic opening, i.e a zfdir directly fol-

lowed by a zfget will never close the connection automati-

cally. Information about the previous connection is given by the zfstat function. So, for example, if that reports: Session: default Not connected. Last session: ftp.bar.com:/pub/textfiles then the command zfget file.txt will attempt to reopen a connection to ftp.bar.com, retrieve the file

/pub/textfiles/file.txt, and immediately close the connec-

tion again. On the other hand, zfcd .. will open the con-

nection in the directory /pub and leave it open. Note that all the above is local to each session; if you

return to a previous session, the connection for that ses-

sion is the one which will be reopened. Completion Completion of local and remote files, directories, sessions

and bookmarks is supported. The older, compctl-style com-

pletion is defined when zfinit is called; support for the

new widget-based completion system is provided in the func-

tion Completion/Zsh/Command/_zftp, which should be installed

with the other functions of the completion system and hence should automatically be available.

ATTRIBUTES

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attri-

butes:

_______________________________________

| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE|

|____________________|__________________|_

| Availability | shell/zsh |

|____________________|__________________|_

| Interface Stability| External |

|____________________|_________________|

NOTES Source for zsh is available on http://opensolaris.org. zsh 4.3.10 Last change: June 1, 2009 13