If you want to access files located on an FTP server, there is a new very powerful way to do this.
The "userLand FileSystem" allows you to mount the share, and work on the remote files just as you would work on any local files.
With all these file systems, you can unmount the share with the standard umount command.
Here is an example of how to mount an FTP file system in /mnt/ftp as anonymous (read only)
# mkdir /mnt/ftp # lufsmount ftpfs://ftp.server.org /mnt/ftp # cd /mnt/ftp # umount /mnt/ftp
# mkdir /mnt/ftp2 # lufsmount ftpfs://login:password@ftp.server.org /mnt/ftp2 # cd /mnt/ftp2 # umount /mnt/ftp2Here is an example of how to mount an SSH file system in /mnt/ssh as anonymous (read only)
# mkdir /mnt/ssh # lufsmount sshfs://login@ssh.server.org /mnt/ssh # cd /mnt/ssh # umount /mnt/ssh