Hello,

As you can probably derive from the title, I'm looking for a scriptable ftp client that also can output the download/upload speeds to some file or log. It should also be able to delete the downloaded file automatically from the remote server afterwards.

At the moment, I'm working with ncftpspooler. I could see that ncftpget/put did output the speeds while up- or downloading. But they did not output just one single line at the end of the process containing an average speed result.
Then I thought that maybe ncftpspooler should output some details about the speeds in it's log but when trying, it didn't.

Also I found how to delete the file from my client after uploading it but no way to delete the file I just downloaded via the ftp. There should be some solution I guess? Afterall, I can manually delete the file from the remote server using an ftp interactive client.

Is there any ftp client (command line) that can show and keep the speed details as well as delete the file it just downloaded?

I should maybe add that I have all the necessary access to this remote server as it is one in my company, the goal of all this is to test our ftp server and connection from various locations.

thanks for any advice.

Kind regards,
Lieven

Not sure if either will completely satisfy your requirements, but have a look at lftp and at curl. Both are scriptable, both have lots of options, both have a verbose mode (or debug mode) that may give you transfer speed.

Good luck.

yeah, use curl. and redirect the output to a file.
then you have the speed output (and some other thing) in a txt file.

you could allso put this in a script, thus letting it download while you are gone, and leaving nice logs where you can later on backtrace any possible problems (or just the speed)

Thanks for the replies, both seem to be sufficient, I'll check out the docu/man and test it.
Maybe another way is with the use of "here documents".