Description

The DATA_TYPE option modifies the behavior of the GET, MGET, PUT, and MPUT commands by explicitly setting the data representation type used for data transfer.

Example:

$ uftp -host ftp://sb-l23-x64 -user test -pwd test -cmd MGET -src [r-t]mit.(script|transaction) -regex -move -data_type TEXT

Usage

Value

type is the data representation type used for a transfer.

Valid values:

• TEXT (for ASCII text files)
• BINARY (binary files)

Default is BINARY for FTP(S).
 
(For SFTP, DATA_TYPE is irrelevant.)