Mount a FTP share in your local filesystem is really easy. And it just makes a FTP client feel like dark age software, with a local mount you can freely use your commands over the files and folders in the share.
First install curlftpfs
cd /usr/ports/sysutils/fusefs-curlftpfs/
make install cleanedit /etc/rc.conf and add
fusefs_enable="YES"and fire it up (actually no daemon here, just a kernel module load), you can see it with kldstat command.
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/fusefs startNow we can happily mount FTP shares to local filesystem with the curlftpfs command.
curlftpfs ftp://user:pass@ftp.myserver.com /my/local/mount/If you don’t want the user/pass typed in the command, and probably you don’t because it can be a bad thing ™ (out in the wild waiting for a ps done by other users…), just setup a .netrc file in your home dir with
machine ftp.myserver.com
login myuser
password mypass
then connect without the user/pass like:
curlftpfs ftp://ftp.myserver.com /my/local/mount/UPDATE
I had some problems with this with a server that was running flawlessly for over a year and it stalled, so i don’t recommend it for production environments, must also test the asynchronous option