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Sindi Keesan wrote:
>
> Is it possible to make some sort of alias for the download 
> with wget and just give the path/filename each time?  

A script would probably be better.

> in /root/.profile (where I just put alias pico="e3pi")?

Does the pico alias actually work?  I could be wrong, but
I don't think /root/.profile is used for shell startup.  
AFAIK BL3 has only two startup files:  /etc/rc   /etc/profile

> alias get="wget ftp://username:password@ftpaddress//"; %1     
> alias put="ftpput -u username -p password ftpaddress" %1

I would be very surprised if you could get an alias to do
what you want (although I am often surprise with what can
be done in Linux).  For starters that %1 will have to go.

Doing scripts for those is easy.  Something like this 
should work:
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#!/sh
wget ftp://username:password@ftpaddress//$1
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Or you could do something more complicated with a menu
(select put or get) and then input the location and
filename.

When it is done, stick the script in the path somewhere 
(eg /usr/sbin).

Cheers,
Steven