If I am behind a proxy server, how do I set my FTP proxy environment variable to let my text-based FTP client pass through the proxy server?

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To setup your FTP proxy environment variable, run the following command:

  export  ftp_proxy=http://proxy_server:port/

This command will set the environment variable ftp_proxy for the current session only.

Note: You will need to know your http://proxy_server and port values for your proxy environment....

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