Man1 - filezilla.1

FileZilla - FTP client

filezilla
filezilla [-l <logontype>] <FTP URL>
filezilla -h|-s|-v
filezilla -c <site>
filezilla -a <path>

FileZilla is a powerful client for plain FTP, FTP over SSL/TLS (FTPS) and the SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP).

-c <site>, –site <site>

Connect to the given site from the Site Manager. Site has to be given as complete path, with a slash as separation character. Any slash or backslash that is part of a segment has to be escaped with a backslash. Path has to be prefixed with 0 for user defined entries or 1 for default entries. Site path may not contain double quotation marks.

Example: filezilla -c 0/foo/bar/sl\/ash connects to the user site sl/ash in the site directory foo/bar

May not be used together with -s nor with URL parameter.

-a <path>, –local <path>

Sets the local site to the given path.

Example: filezilla -a “foo bar”

-h, –help

Displays a help dialog listing these commandline options.

-l <logontype>, –logontype <logontype>

Set a special logontype, can only be used in combination with a FTP URL as argument.

Logontype has to be either ask or interactive. If -l isn’t given, the normal logontype is used.

-s, –sitemanager

Start with Site Manager opened. May not be used together with -c nor with URL parameter.

-v, –version

Display version number of FileZilla.

The FZ_DATADIR environment variable can be used to specify the directory containing FileZilla’s data files.

Please visit https://filezilla-project.org/ for further information. Report bugs only if you are using the latest version available from the FileZilla website.

Copyright (C) 2004-2019 Tim Kosse

FileZilla is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 or later.

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