FTPie CLI - Command-Line File Transfers
Drive FTPie's transfers from the command line and scripts - the same engine as the GUI, scriptable from PowerShell, batch files and CI.
The CLI ships to FTPie Pro at the end of June 2026, alongside File Encryption and Scheduled Transfers. The full command reference will be published alongside it at release.
The reason a lot of people picked WinSCP or rclone over a friendlier GUI came down to one thing: they could script it. A transfer you can express on the command line is a transfer you can put in a deploy step, a scheduled job, or a CI pipeline.
The FTPie CLI gives you that without giving up the app. It runs the same transfer engine as the GUI, against the same connections you have already set up - so a path that works when you click it works when you script it. One tool, two front ends: the window when you want it, the command line when you need it.
What you can automate
- Upload and download files and folders to any configured storage
- Reference saved accounts by name -
dropbox:/reports,myserver:/var/www- instead of re-entering credentials - Wire transfers into deploys - push a build artifact to a server as the last step of a release
- Run it headless in CI or on a schedule, with exit codes you can branch on
Built for scripts
The CLI uses account-name prefixes so commands read naturally and stay stable across machines. It returns meaningful exit codes - for example, an unknown account name exits non-zero and suggests the closest match rather than failing silently. That is the kind of behaviour that makes a command safe to drop into a pipeline. The full syntax, flags and exit codes will ship with the CLI documentation at release.
GUI and CLI in one tool
Most tools force the choice: a polished GUI or a scriptable command line. FTPie gives you both over one connection model, one engine, one license. Set a connection up once in the app; use it from the window, from a scheduled transfer, or from a script - whichever fits the task. It is the same reason power users reached for WinSCP and rclone, without the all-command-line tradeoff.
Common questions
The same backends as the app - FTP, FTPS, SFTP, WebDAV, NAS and the supported clouds (Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, Box, pCloud, MEGA).
Yes - PowerShell, batch files, or any tool that can invoke a command and read an exit code.
Yes. It is designed for non-interactive use with predictable exit codes for branching.
The CLI is part of FTPie Pro, arriving end of June 2026. See the plan comparison.
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