Ubuntu – Upload file to ftps from command line

Try

curl -u user:password 'ftp://mysite/%2fusers/myfolder/myfile/raw' -o ~/Downloads/myfile.raw

In FTP URLs, the path is relative to the starting directory (usually your homedir). You need to specify an absolute path, and that means using %2f to specify /. This is needed because the path in ftp: URLs is treated as a list of slash-separated names, each of which is supposed to be given to a separate CWD command. The %2f is decoded after splitting. See RFC 1738 and FTP URLs.

As for the output location, just give a path to -o.

Security suggestions:

• Don't put your password in the URL. Storing it in ~/.netrc is not particularly secure either, but it at least is hidden from ps -ef.

• Your password is sent in clear text. If the server supports it, use curl --ssl-reqd or curl ftps://mysite/...

• Using SFTP (the SSH file transfer protocol) would be even better.

Here is one approach:

$ ftp -n <<EOF
open ftp.example.com
user user secret
put my-local-file.txt
EOF

Alternatively, create (or edit) the ~/.netrc file in the home dir of the user that will run the ftp command, give it appropriate perms (chmod 0600 ~/.netrc), and add the following:

# ~/.netrc
machine ftp.example.com
login user
password secret

Then omit the login information, as in:

$ echo put my-local-file.txt | ftp ftp.example.com

Also, here's how you might do the same thing using curl:

$ curl -T my-local-file.txt ftp://ftp.example.com --user user:secret