Name
tftp
Synopsis
tftp [host [port]]
Description
User interface to the TFTP (Trivial File Transfer Protocol), which allows users to transfer files to and from a remote machine. The remote host may be specified, in which case tftp uses host as the default host for future transfers.
Commands
Once tftp is running, it issues the prompt:
tftp>
and recognizes the following commands:
- ? [command-name...]
Print help information.
- ascii
Shorthand for mode ASCII.
- binary
Shorthand for mode binary.
- connect hostname [port]
Set the hostname, and optionally the port, for transfers.
- get filename , get remotename localname , get filename1 filename2 filename3...filenameN
Get a file or set of files from the specified remote sources.
- mode transfer-mode
Set the mode for transfers. transfer-mode may be ASCII or binary. The default is ASCII.
- put filename , put localfile remotefile , put filename1 filename2...filenameN remote-directory
Transfer a file or set of files to the specified remote file or directory.
- quit
Exit tftp.
- rexmt retransmission-timeout
Set the per-packet retransmission timeout, in seconds.
- status
Print status information: whether tftp is connected to a remote host (i.e., whether a host has been specified for the next connection), the current mode, whether verbose and tracing modes are on, and the values for retransmission timeout and total transmission timeout.
- timeout total-transmission-timeout
Set the total transmission timeout, in seconds.
- trace
Toggle packet tracing.
- verbose
Toggle ...
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