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11.1 Command line options
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Many command line options have counterparts among the commands handled
by the internal interpreter.

'-4'
'--ipv4'
     Initially set addressing to IPv4 only.

'-6'
'--ipv6'
     Initially set addressing to IPv6 only.

'-A'
'--active'
     Enable active mode transfer.  Default mode for 'ftp'.

'-d'
'--debug'
     Enable debugging output and possibly also socket debugging.

'-e'
'--no-edit'
     Disables the editing of commands.  This is default setting for
     batch mode, without a TTY, or when the environment variable 'TERM'
     is not set or its value is 'dumb'.

'-g'
'--no-glob'
     Disables file name globbing.

'-i'
'--no-prompt'
     Turns off interactive prompting during multiple file transfers.

'-N NETRC'
'--netrc=NETRC'
     Set a preferred location of the '.netrc' file, thus overriding any
     environment setting in 'NETRC', as well as the default location
     '$HOME/.netrc', *note The .netrc file::.

'-n'
'--no-login'
     Restrains 'ftp' from attempting "auto-login" upon initial
     connection.  If auto-login is enabled, 'ftp' will check the
     '.netrc' (*note The .netrc file::) file in the user's home
     directory for an entry describing an account on the remote machine.
     If no entry exists, 'ftp' will prompt for the remote machine login
     name (default is the user identity on the local machine), and, if
     necessary, prompt for a password and an account with which to
     login.

'-p'
'--passive'
     Enable passive mode transfer.  Default mode when invoked as 'pftp'.

'--prompt[=PROMPT]'
     Print a command-line prompt, even if not on a tty.  If PROMPT is
     supplied, its value is used instead of the default 'ftp> '.
     Notice, that the argument is optional.

'-t'
'--trace'
     Enable packet tracing (not implemented).

'-v'
'--verbose'
     Start in verbose mode, printing informational messages.  This is
     default for interactive mode.