Ftp redirect

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi
i want to redirect a list of ftp file to an exsisting file by

 mls x.txt mylocalfile.txt

result of this command corrupt my data on mylocalfile.txt , please help me

2

Hi,

I think that you will have sent the output of mls x.txt to mylocalfile.txt , but it's been a very long time since I used ftp.

After you had opened ftp, did you action the "prompt" instruction to confirm your actions?

Regards

Gull04

3

Hi
yes , i use :

ftp myftpsite
>prompt off
>mls x.txt mylocalfile.txt
>bye

no i have a file with one row , while i had important data in mylocalfile.txt