lftphasshell-likecommandsyntaxallowingyoutolaunchseveralcommandsinparallelinbackground(&).Itisalsopossibletogroupcommandswithin()andexecutetheminbackground.Allbackgroundjobsareexecutedinthesamesingleprocess.Youcanbringaforegroundjobtobackgroundwith^Z(c-z)andbackwithcommand`wait' (or `fg'whichisaliasto`wait'). To list running jobs, use command `jobs'.Somecommandsallowredirectingtheiroutput(cat,ls,...)tofileorviapipetoexternalcommand.Commandscanbeexecutedconditionallybasedonterminationstatusofpreviouscommand(&&,||).
Thereiscommand`at' to launch a job at specified time in current context, command `queue'toqueuecommandsforsequentialexecutionforcurrentserver,andmuchmore.
Other low level stuff supported:ftpproxy,httpproxy,ftpoverhttp,opie/skey,fxptransfers,socks.
LFTP supports secure versions of the protocols FTP and HTTP:FTPS (explicitandimplicit) andHTTPS. LFTPneedstobelinkedwithanSSLlibrarytosupportthem. GNUTLSandOpenSSLarebothsupportedasSSLbackend.