Beispiel einer persönlichen FTP-Sitzung von einer Unix-Shell aus:
success1:~ $ ftp ip.cubenet.de Connected to ip. 220 ip FTP server (Version 5.1 (NeXT 1.0) Thu Nov 3, 1994) ready. Name (ip.cubenet.de:werner): werner 331 Password required for werner. Password: 230 User werner logged in. ftp> cd Listen 250 CWD command successful. ftp> dir 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls. total 1390 -rw-r--r-- 1 werner other 142013 May 5 1995 int.lis -rw-r--r-- 1 werner other 1865 Nov 24 15:33 zu_tun.txt 226 Transfer complete. 1755 bytes received in 0.61 seconds (2.79 Kbytes/s) ftp> get int.lis 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for int.lis (142013 bytes). 226 Transfer complete. local: int.lis remote: int.lis 147417 bytes received in 1.06 seconds (1.3e+02 Kbytes/s) ftp> qui 221 Goodbye.persönliches FTP mit Netscape: ftp://username@hostname/Verzeichnis
Beispiel einer anonymen FTP-Sitzung von einer Unix-Shell aus:
success1:~ $ ftp ip.cubenet.de Connected to ip. 220 ip FTP server (Version 5.1 (NeXT 1.0) Thu Nov 3, 1994) ready. Name (ip.cubenet.de:werner): ftp 331 Guest login ok, send ident as password. Password: 230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply. ftp> cd pub/comp/NeXT 250 CWD command successful. ftp> ls 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list. sendmail.8.7.4.NIHS.bd.tar.gz services.tar.gz smail.3.1.s.tar.gz timezones96.NIHS.bd.tar.gz 226 Transfer complete. 1037 bytes received in 0.03 seconds (31.94 Kbytes/s) ftp> bin 200 Type set to I. ftp> get services.tar.gz 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for services.tar.gz (94774 bytes). 226 Transfer complete. local: services.tar.gz remote: services.tar.gz 94774 bytes received in 0.57 seconds (1.6e+02 Kbytes/s) ftp> qui 221 Goodbye.anonymes FTP mit Netscape: ftp://hostname/Verzeichnis