(Answer) (Category) SCO UnixWare 7/OpenUNIX 8/OpenServer 6 FAQ : (Category) User Related Information :
How do I issue complex commands to an ftp server, like ls -lF?
The ftp client program lets you issue complex argument lists within quotation marks, as in: 

      ftp>  ls "-lF ptf*"

The trick is just to quote everything after the first command, I think, so the shell does not interpret them. It only took me 10 years of ftp'ing to learn that one :)

   There's also

            ls |less
            cat README -
            cat README |less

   which are examples of how you pipe data a local shell command.

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