FTP commands can be used by prefixing either zftp (e.g. You get all of zsh's features including command line history and completion (of both local and remote files). MacOS comes with a convenient command line FTP client: it's built into zsh, in the zftp module. rlwrap is available from many package repositories including Brew. You can use rlwrap to give any line-oriented command line software bash-like line editing commands, history, and completion of (local) file names. The problem with sshfs is that it requires a kernel extension for FUSE, which is fine on Intel Macs, but a pain on Apple Silicon due to the extra kernel integrity protections. As a contributor (minimum amount 10 USD) you receive a registration key that registers the installed application to your name and disables the donation prompt that is otherwise displayed after installing or updating Cyberduck.

The sshfs software itself is easily available from package repositories such as Brew. macOS 10.12 or later on Intel (64bit) or Apple M1 required.

You can then use ordinary shell commands (with the shell's history and completion) to access remote files. The best way to use SFTP is via sshfs, which makes any SFTP server available as a networked filesystem. There is software that supports both, but it's just a common interface over two completely different things under the hood. FTP and SFTP are completely different protocols.

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