Uploading a local file to a remote FTP server

You would like to upload a file to an FTP server.

Getting ready

Let us set up a local FTP server. In Unix/Linux, you can install VSFTPD (Very Secure File Transfer Protocol Daemon) FTP Server using the following command:

$ sudo apt-get install vsftpd

On a Windows machine, you can install the FileZilla FTP server, which can be downloaded from https://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=server. FileZilla can also be installed in Linux. For example, in Debian-based Linux distributions such as Ubuntu:

$ sudo apt-get install filezilla

You should create an FTP user account following the FTP server package's user manual.

You would also like to upload a file to an FTP server. You can specify the server address, login credentials, and filename as the input argument of your script. You should create a local file called readme.txt with any text in it.

How to do it...

Using the following script, let's set up a local FTP server. Once you have installed the FTP...