A lot of times I used the command, which opens a temporary HTTP server on current directory:
python3 -m http.server
Now I need to receive files, is there any one-line command that opens a ftp server?
I am simply looking for a command line ftp server, no configurations files, no daemons.
I tried Twisted as in One line ftp server in python , but the user has no permission to send files...
Here's a solution using NodeJS (ftp-srv module)
npx ftp-srv ftp://0.0.0.0:2121 --root .
This starts an FTP server listening on TCP port 2121 on all interfaces, which uses the current directory as the root (this is actually the default, so the --root . could be omitted for this particular case) and accepts all logins.
(npx downloads the module and runs its main script with the options provided.)
You may also want to check out the --pasv_url option to enable passive mode.
For more details, see https://www.npmjs.com/package/ftp-srv#cli
Options:
--help Show help [boolean]
--version Show version number [boolean]
--credentials, -c Load user & pass from json file [string]
--username Blank for anonymous [string] [default: ""]
--password Password for given username [string]
--root, -r Default root directory for users [string]
--read-only Disable write actions such as upload, delete, etc
[boolean] [default: false]
--pasv_url URL to provide for passive connections [string]
--pasv_min Starting point to use when creating passive connections
[number] [default: 1024]
--pasv_max Ending port to use when creating passive connections
[number] [default: 65535]
Also you can use twistd:
$ virtualenv try-twisted
$ . try-twisted/bin/activate
(try-twisted) $ pip install twisted[tls]
(try-twisted) $ twistd -n ftp --root=/my/share/dir --password-file=/tmp/pass.dat
and connect to ftp://127.0.0.1:2121 as anonymous
(to deactivate virtualenv run: deactivate)