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close

Close connection to SFTP or FTP server

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Syntax

close(s)

Description

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close(s) closes the connection to the SFTP or FTP server associated with s.

Examples

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Open Live Script

Open a connection to an FTP server. Then close it when your session is finished.

First, connect to the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) FTP server.

s = ftp('ftp.ngdc.noaa.gov')
  FTP with properties:

                         Host: "ftp.ngdc.noaa.gov"
                     Username: "anonymous"
                         Port: 21
                 ServerLocale: "en_US"
                 DirParserFcn: @matlab.io.ftp.parseDirListingForUnix
                         Mode: "binary"
    LocalDataConnectionMethod: "passive"
       RemoteWorkingDirectory: "/"

Show the contents on the server, and retrieve the README.txt file.

dir(s)
 
DMSP                         coastwatch                   international                
INDEX.txt                    dmsp4alan                    ionosonde                    
README.txt                   ftp.html                     mgg                          
STP                          geomag                       pub                          
Snow_Ice                     google12c4c939d7b90761.html  wdc                          
Solid_Earth                  index.html                                                
 

mget(s,'README.txt');

Close the connection to the FTP server.

close(s)

FTP service courtesy of the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI). See the NCEI Privacy Policy, Disclaimer, and Copyright for NCEI terms of service.

Input Arguments

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Connection to an SFTP or FTP server, specified as an SFTP object or an FTP object.

Tips

  • If you do not run close at the end of your session, then the connection either times out automatically or terminates when you exit MATLAB®.

  • close does not return any output to indicate success or failure.

Version History

Introduced before R2006a

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