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Revision as of 20:53, 28 September 2014
Below is a tutorial on how to browse FTP servers in Vifm. It's assumed that
some *nix
-like operating system with support of FUSE is used. Special
files described below have .ftp
suffix, but it can be any other extension as well.
Install CurlFtpFS
Install it in whatever way you like the most, which probably depends on your operating system distribution. One can always obtain sources at the official site.
Configure Vifm to handle *.ftp
files with CurlFtpFS
Sample command:
" FtpMount
filetype *.ftp
\ {Mount with CurlFtpFS}
\ FUSE_MOUNT2|curlftpfs -o ftp_port=-,,disable_eprt %PARAM %DESTINATION_DIR %CLEAR,
Let's enumerate used options of CurlFtpFS:
ftp_port=1
- make CurlFtpFS pick the same IP address that is already used for the control connection;,,
is used to insert,
literally as it has special meaning in the argument list of:filetype
command (and:filextype
);disable_eprt
- tell CurlFtpFS to disable the use of theEPRT
andLPRT
commands; it's there just for better connection performance.
See man curlftpfs for other options.
Create *.ftp
file
Create a file with .ftp
suffix for the server you're willing to connect to.
Say, it's name is server-name.ftp
and content is like:
-o user=<user-name> <server-address>:
The simplest example might be:
$ cat gnu.ftp ftp.gnu.org
Connect
In a running instance of Vifm just navigate to the .ftp
-file and press l or
Enter key.
Alternatively, one can pass path to .ftp
-file to Vifm on command-line:
vifm gnu.ftp
which will connect to remote server on Vifm's startup.
Optimization
Remote FTP servers might be slow to respond, that's why it's a good idea to ask Vifm to reduce number of file-system queries in such directories. It can be done with the following option:
set slowfs=curlftpfs
curlftpfs
here is type of FUSE file-system as it's seen in mtab. So if you
use fsname=NAME
option of CurlFtpFS, don't forget to use that NAME
in
'slowfs'
option.