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baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Oct 2007, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:
>
>   
> > > > Can you provide a minimal ftp program?  BL3 has ftpput (and busybox also
> > > > has ftpget but bl3 has wget instead).  I use kermit ftp.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >         
> > > On my site there is ftp program of about 53 kilobytes. Compressed with
> > > upx it is about 27 kilobytes. But I might make something smaller.
> > >       
>
> Sorry I missed it.  Works perfectly.  libc5 not upx-ed.
> How does one un-upx?  ldd won't work on upx'ed files.
>   

upx -d programname

>   
> > Also, I have found one ftp client written in bash
> >
> > http://perso.orange.fr/kdntl/depotoir/ftp.sh.txt
> >
> > After deleting comments and help it can be trimmed to seven kilobytes,
> > but I have not tried it.
> >     
>
> I got it and renamed it ftp.sh, and chmod +x
> ftp.sh [OPTIONS] hostname
>
> ftp.sh ftp.freeshell.org
> [[: missing ]]
> [[: missing ]]
> ./ftp.sh:  ./0:  Permission denied
> ./ftp.sh:  /dev/tcp/ftp.freeshell.org/21:  Not a directory
>
> This was with BL2, slackware bash.
> It was tested with bash 3.00.16 and 2.05b.
>
> I tried in BL3.50 (chrooted) with busybox 1.01 bash
> ./ftp.sh:  124:  Syntax error:  Bad substitution.
>
> Line 24 of ftp.sh reads:
> print_answer "${answer[@]}"
>
>   
Maybe it is still possible to edit the script to make it working.