---
name: "ncftpbatch"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "ncftp"
version: "3.3.0-2"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/ncftpbatch"
---

# ncftpbatch(1)

Individual batch FTP job processor

## NAME

ncftpbatch - Individual batch FTP job processor

## SYNOPSIS

**ncftpbatch** -d

**ncftpbatch** -l

**ncftpbatch** -D

## OPTIONS

### Command line flags:

- **-d**

  Begin background processing of FTP jobs in the current user's $HOME/.ncftp/spool directory. This returns immediately, because a daemon process is spawned and ran in the background.

- **-l**

  Lists the contents of the user's job queue.

- **-D**

  This is like **-d**, except that the process does not become a daemon.

## DESCRIPTION

This program is responsible for processing background FTP requests. It is normally only run by *ncftp* and not manually by a human being, however you can run it to manually process the FTP job queue.

The jobs are spool files written to a user's $HOME/.ncftp/spool directory and have a special format and file-naming convention (which contains when the job is to be run). *ncftp* runs this program when it needs to, but if the *ncftpbatch* daemon dies unexpectedly the jobs that are left in the queue will not be processed until another instance of *ncftpbatch* is run.

*ncftpget* and *ncftpput* can also be used to submit jobs for batch processing, using those utilities' **-b** command-line flag. If desired, you can also manually create the spool files although this procedure is not documented here (see the manual page for *ncftpspooler* for more information on how to do that).

## DIAGNOSTICS

*ncftpbatch* writes to its own log file, the  $HOME/.ncftp/spool/log file. This file should be examined to determine if any *ncftpbatch* processes are actively working on jobs.

## AUTHOR

Mike Gleason, NcFTP Software (http://www.ncftp.com).

## SEE ALSO

[*ncftp*(1)](/ncftp/1.md), [*ncftpput*(1)](/ncftpput/1.md), [*ncftpget*(1)](/ncftpget/1.md).