+12 Download Ftp Linux References. It is highly recommended to use the package management system of your distribution or to manually compile filezilla if you are running a different flavour of linux. If your username or password contains special characters, you may need to use the format:

Let’s say we want to download the files to the ~/ftp_downloads directory: Ftp [option.] [host [port]] description. Wget ftp://(address of ftp server)/(file location)