Getting a list of files from an ftp server

[texpat]

Hi all,

This is what I did:

ftp> ls > filelist.txt
ftp> output to local-file: filelist.txt? y
200 PORT command successful
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list
450 >: No such file or directory
ftp>

(emphasis mine to highlight user input)

This creates a local file filelist.txt but its empty.

Thanks for reading. I'd appreciate any help with this.

[SlugSlug]

does

ls

display the list as expected?

[SlugSlug]

 ls . filelist.txt

[texpat]

 ls . filelist.txt

That did it. Thanks!

[wilnotdie]

That works good. How would I go about getting a list of only the file names?

I tried

ls -m1 . /list.txt

but doesn't work. Just says

usage: ls remote-directory local-file

by itself it gives me the correct output.