I have this sort of stanza in my .netrc: machine ftp.mydomain.com login mylogin password mypassword and while I can successfully connect with ftp: ftp ftp.mydomain.com and passing credentials to ncftp: ncftp -umylogin -pmypassword ftp.mydomain.com I get this using only ncftp ftp.mydomain.com NcFTP 3.2.4 (May 16, 2010) by Mike Gleason (http://www.NcFTP.com/contact/) . Connecting to xxx.xxx.0.140... ProFTPD 1.3.1 Server (Debian) [::ffff:xxx.xxx.0.140] Login incorrect. Sleeping 20 seconds...

I am trying to upload multiple directories recursively to an FTP server, (and FTP is the only way). Say I have the following environment: Remote: / /remote-files/ /readme.txt Local: /my-website.com/ /my-website.com/dir1/file1.txt /my-website.com/dir2/file2.txt If I issue the following command: ncftpput -R -v -u "root" -p "root" 149.xxx.xxx.xxx / /my-website.com The result would be: / /remote-files/ /readme.txt /my-website.com/ /my-website.com/dir1/file1.txt /my-website.com/dir2/file2.txt What I desired: / /remote-files/ /readme.txt /dir1/file1.txt /dir2/file2.txt I tried: ncftpput -R -v -u "root" -p "root" 149.xxx.xxx.xxx / /my-website.com/ but it makes no difference. How to do it? Or should I use other program? Thank you.

I'm using the ncftp utility. It has an edit command which handles the get, edit, put sequence for me as in GUI ftp clients. It's great except for one thing, I get vanilla vim, with none of my settings. Ideally, I'd like to have it configured exactly the same as outside of ncftp (colors, key mappings, pathogen bundles, etc). How can I force vim to load my settings when invoked from within ncftp? NCFTP relies on the following environment variable to find the editor: EDITOR="/usr/bin/vi" ; export EDITOR Can that somehow be tweaked to force load my settings?