-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xml:lang="en"><generator uri="https://jekyllrb.com/" version="4.4.1">Jekyll</generator><link href="https://mark-wang.com/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="https://mark-wang.com/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" hreflang="en"/><updated>2026-02-08T01:27:21+00:00</updated><id>https://mark-wang.com/feed.xml</id><title type="html">Mark K. Wang</title><subtitle>Mark Wang's personal website. </subtitle><entry><title type="html">Transfer files with Box and lftp</title><link href="https://mark-wang.com/blog/2022/lftp/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Transfer files with Box and lftp"/><published>2022-08-13T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2022-08-13T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://mark-wang.com/blog/2022/lftp</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://mark-wang.com/blog/2022/lftp/"><![CDATA[<h3 id="outline">Outline</h3> <hr/> <ol> <li><a href="#purpose">Purpose</a></li> <li><a href="#setup">Setup and Configuration</a></li> <li><a href="#use-lftp">Using <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">lftp</code></a></li> </ol> <p><a name="purpose"></a></p> <h3 id="purpose">Purpose</h3> <hr/> <p>Transfer Box cloud storage files with the command line tool <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">lftp</code>. <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">lftp</code> is more reliable than using a web browser. It automatically handles errors, can restart interrupted transfers, and can transfer both large files and large amounts of files. <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">lftp</code> is also useful when there is no GUI available such as in an HPC environment.</p> <p><a name="setup"></a></p> <h3 id="setup-and-configuration">Setup and Configuration</h3> <hr/> <p>First install <a href="https://lftp.yar.ru"><code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">lftp</code></a> on your local machine with your favorite package manager:</p> <div class="language-sh highlighter-rouge"><div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code><span class="nv">$ </span>brew <span class="nb">install </span>lftp
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