FTP and Secure FTP (FTPS, SFTP) - Connect to an FTPS server

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Jeremy Canfield |
Updated: July 05 2022
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On a Linux system, the lftp command can be used to connect to make an FTPS connection to an FTP server. On a Debian distribution (Mint, Ubuntu), the apt-get install command can be used to install lftp. On a Red Hat distribution (CentOS, Fedora, Red Hat), the dnf install or yum install command can be used to install lftp.
dnf install lftp
Here is the basic command that would be used to connect to make an FTPS connection to an FTP server.
lftp -u john.doe ftps.example.com
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