FTP with TLS

[mathewparet]

I have a linux based VPS. And another linux shared hosting account. This shared linux hosting account supports only FTP over TLS (Explicit). I am trying to build a shell script on my VPS that would use FTP over TLS to connect to my ftp server and pull a file from the server.

However I am not able to figure out how to connect to FTP over TLS. How do I do this?

[Rob Pomeroy]

You need an ftp client that supports TLS.  lftp does.  Should be straightforward to install it on most flavours of Linux.  lftp can work scripted - you just need to specify the host like this: "ftps://user:[email protected]".  See the man page for more details.