Foxtrot tango, papa?

[undyingking]

Does anyone know of / can recommend a good free / cheap FTP client that'll do reasonably clever and option-laden synching of directory content? Something like WinSCP, only for FTP?

Edit: Being more specific, features I'd like to see include:

* with a small number of clicks, it compares a remote directory (and recurses down into subdirectories) with the previously-specified local equivalent, presents me a list of which files are newer at which end, and will then (again with a small number of clicks) upload or download as appropriate to sych the ones I want to be synched;

* options to include hidden files in the comparison, exclude certain types of files by extension, ...

* remember directory presentation options;

* refresh local directory automatically when changes made in other apps (this seems a simple feature, but I've yet to find it);

* can keep conections to more than one server open at once;

* can configure keep-alive options;

* can synch (as above) remote servers with each other (via invisible local temp copy, presumably);

* easy to chmod, chown, chgrp;

* keps informative log of operations;

* make coffee.

Comments

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

I don't really know what you mean by "clever and option-laden", but I've found FileZilla pretty good for general FTP-age and it supports "overwrite if newer", which I assume is what you mean by synching ?

[wimble.livejournal.com]

We used to use ws_ftp at work.

I say "we", as I didn't. I ended up with ncftp, being a more powerful command line client.

Dunno whether it'll do what you want :(

[a-llusive.livejournal.com]

SSH Comms file transfer is the tool I have at work, but I also do not know much about it (or whether it's cheap or not).

[bibliogirl.livejournal.com]

I think FileZilla will do most of what you want, off the top of my head (with the possible exception of the chmod etc. stuff). I believe it only comes with tea-making rather than coffee as standard, though.

[vicarage.livejournal.com]

rsync and Linux

[fractalgeek.livejournal.com]

Now sure if it deals with FTP (UNC rather than URL), but I absolutely love SyncToy (an MS PowerToy) for syncing Windows directory structures.