May 5 Update?

[rprosperi]

(05-08-2021 09:10 PM)ijabbott Wrote:  For the GNOME desktop's File browser ("Nautilus"), Clicking "+ Other Locations" (or local translation thereof) in the side bar brings up a "Connect to Server" box where you can enter a URL of various types, including FTP URLs. Then press "Connect" and login to the FTP site anonymously, and it will appear as a directory in the side bar. That requires the GVFS backends to be installed (GVFS = "GNOME Virtual FIle System"). If you also install the GVFS FUSE daemon (FUSE = "Filesystem in User Space"), it will also be mounted as a filesystem under the user's "$XDG_USER_DIR/gvfs" directory. E.g., HP's FTP site appears mounted as "/run/user/1000/gvfs/ftp:host=ftp.hp.com" for me (1000 is my local UID number). This allows access to files on the FTP site from the command line using the regular UNIX commands such as "cp" to copy files.

Thanks for this note Ian. I haven't dabbled with GNOME in a very long time... when it was new-ish, I always preferred KDE, much like the classic mac/pc approaches, though I've often read that GNOME improved steadily over the years.

This is an elegant solution too; being able to treat the ftp: site from the command line is nice but that path is a bit unwieldy; is there some shortcut for the root "/run/user/1000/gvfs/" portion?