I'm in love with lftp
I've recently been delighted by lftp, a multiprotocol text-mode client. One very nice feature is that you can append & to commands to run them in the background, just like in a Unix shell:
lftp> get index.html&
[0] get index.html &
lftp> jobs
[0] Done (get index.html)
4060 bytes transferred
lftp will automatically open new connections to continue the command while you continue to do other work. It will also reopen connections if they drop or timeout, without losing any user-visible state.
I saw a cool instance of that today: one of our servers hosting the bazaar-ng website was upgraded to new hardware while I was asleep. I still had an lftp session open to maintain the web site. When I typed ls the next day I could continue working just as before, without ever needing to know the whole server had changed. Truly a remarkable program.
posted Fri 19 Aug 2005 in /software | link
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