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Downloading file from FTP using cURL

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Mar 15, 2026126839 views
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I'm trying to use a cURL command to download a file from an FTP server to a local drive on my computer. I've tried curl "ftp://myftpsite" --user name:password -Q "CWD /users/myfolder/" -O "myfile.raw" But it returns an error that says: curl: Remote file name has no length! curl: try 'curl --help' o…

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Fix for: Downloading file from FTP using cURL

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Try 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 to specify . This is needed because the path in URLs is treated as a list of slash-separated names, ea…

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