how to refresh in lftp

[manuhack]

Browse through the manual and couldn't find the command. Does anyone know how to refresh the directory in lftp?

[likwid]

You mean like, typing dir?

[basicwebus]

Did you try
ls
?
ls gives a list of files in a directory.
( That is a small L by the way)

Basicwebus

[manuhack]

No, I mean something like when you use gftp, if you have new files in the remote machine then you need to click refresh in order to see it. What's the corresponding command for that?

[lasalled]

Heya,

I've just registered to Linux Forums to post the answer to this (easy) question. The reason i'm doing that is because i'm struggling to get RID off m$ products and lftp is the ftp client that i'm currently trialing and i had exactly the same question/problem as you. Therefore even tho it's been 4 years since you posted that question, i'm posting this answer w/ the hope that it will be useful to somebody else in the future.

I found 2 ways to refresh a dir when connected using lftp.

The simplest one: just change directory!

So you're in /a and you want it refreshed? "cd /" then back to "cd /a" and it'll refresh /a. As easy as that!

Real pros will you tell however that there is a "cache" trigger : Let's issue "help cache"

<<
help cache
Usage: cache [SUBCMD]
cache command controls local memory cache

The following subcommands are recognized:
stat - print cache status (default)
on|off - turn on/off caching
flush - flush cache
size <lim> - set memory limit
expire <Nx> - set cache expiration time to N seconds (x=s)
minutes (x=m) hours (x=h) or days (x=d)
>>

So if we do :

<<
cache flush
ls
>>

It will refresh the PWD (Presently Working Dir). Alternatively issuing "cache off" will get rid of the cache as a whole.

ENJOY!