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From the command line, I want to download a file from a FTP server. Once the download completes, I want the file to be deleted on the server. Is there any way to do this?

Originally I considered wget, but there is no particular reason why to use that specifically. Any tool would be fine as long as it runs on Linux.

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    Not with wget, no. Commented Mar 17, 2015 at 20:50
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    If there is a "why" you have to use wget, please, edit your question and explain ;) Commented Mar 17, 2015 at 21:34
  • Hi andy_ttse, and welcome to the site. I edited your question to hopefully make it more clear. I believe I stayed true to your intent, but also recognize that it is a fairly large edit; should you be unhappy with the edit for any reason whatsoever, by all means feel free to either edit further, or to roll back my edit. (Click the "edited ... ago" link, then click "rollback" above the revision you want to roll back to.) Remember that the full edit history for each post is available, so unlike on most forums, there's usually no reason to not make any changes inline. Commented Mar 17, 2015 at 22:13
  • I would think using regular ftp commands would be fine. get filename mdelete filename Or are you asking how to do it all from one line? Commented Mar 18, 2015 at 0:27

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with curl:

curl ftp://example.com/ -X 'DELE myfile.zip' --user username:password
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  • curl command above only deletes the file. If you'd like to use retrieve and delete in a single step, use: curl -O example.com/myfile.zip -Q '-rm myfile.zip' --user username:password Commented Dec 6, 2016 at 5:36
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with lftp:

lftp ftp://user:password@host -e "get -E remotefile; bye"
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For multiple files using lftp:

lftp ftp://user:password@$host -e "mirror --Remove-source-files; bye"
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