Linux – ftp command line without overwrite

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I transfered 15gb over the network. I have aother 10 to go. How do i transfer via cmd line without overwriting existing files? I want to skip files so i dont store it again. I dont need unique names for this.

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The man page for ftp lists the sunique and runique FTP subcommands which toggle saving files with unique filenames, as a way of avoiding overwriting existing files:

ie, file.1 if file exists, file.2 if file.1 exists, etc.

These are ftp commands, not OS command-line options for ftp, but I think the .netrc file could be used to toggle sunique or runique from the default OFF state when ftp starts.

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Linux – Empty bash command line

Pressing Ctrl+U will empty the current line.

It's the default kill character on most terminals and it erases the current line (from the cursor to its beginning). The stty command can be used to get or set its value.

[dave@hal9000 ~]$ stty -a
speed 38400 baud; rows 23; columns 75; line = 0;
intr = ^C; quit = ^\; erase = ^?; kill = ^U; eof = ^D; eol = M-^?;
eol2 = M-^?; swtch = M-^?; start = ^Q; stop = ^S; susp = ^Z; rprnt = ^R;
werase = ^W; lnext = ^V; flush = ^O; min = 1; time = 0;
...
[dave@hal9000 ~]$ stty kill ^T # Set it to Ctrl-T

Be the way, werase stands for word erase, so Ctrl+W erases the word on the left of the cursor.

Linux – overwrite the header of a file without copying the whole file

This will overwrite the beginning of large-file with the contents of small-file:

dd if=small-file of=large-file conv=notrunc

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