One line ftp server in python

Question

Is it possible to have a one line command in python to do a simple ftp server? I\'d like to be able to do this as quick and temporary way to transfer files to a linux box wi

Answer 1

Why don't you instead use a one-line HTTP server?

python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000

will serve the contents of the current working directory over HTTP on port 8000.

If you use Python 3, you should instead write

python3 -m http.server 8000

See the SimpleHTTPServer module docs for 2.x and the http.server docs for 3.x.

By the way, in both cases the port parameter is optional.