# Install wput with Homebrew, apk, apt, MacPorts

Tiny, wget-like FTP client for uploading files. Version 0.6.2 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-10. Also installable with debian: sudo apt install wput.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:wput
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install wput
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install wput
```

  Evidence: MacPorts ports tree: net/wput/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

### Linux

- apk (92%):

```sh
sudo apk add wput
```

  Evidence: Alpine Linux edge package indexes: wput from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install wput
```

  Evidence: Debian stable package indexes: wput from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:wput
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.6.2
- **Source summary:** Tiny, wget-like FTP client for uploading files
- **Homepage:** <https://wput.sourceforge.net/>
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-10T09:59:34-04:00
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- wdel (alias)
- wput (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.6.2
## Project history and usage

wput is a command-line FTP uploader intentionally shaped like wget in reverse: instead of downloading files from remote servers, it uploads files or whole directories to FTP servers. Its homepage and manpage both describe it as a wget-like FTP uploader.

### Project history

The upstream ChangeLog records early development by Hagen Fritsch, including wput-0.2 on 2003-01-06 and a long redesign period from 2004-04-24 to 2004-08-04 that added multiple URL/file input, proxy support, wgetrc-style configuration, resume/skip/upload behavior, and improved username/password handling. The 0.6 series followed in 2006, and wput-0.6.2 in 2008 added fixes for files larger than 2 GB, Haiku support, translations, and an option to disable TLS for buggy FTPS servers.

The project's later changelog entries show maintenance rather than reinvention: crash fixes, proxy error fixes, chmod support, and portability work. That history matches its niche as a small Unix networking tool whose value comes from predictable command-line behavior.

### Adoption history

wput's adoption niche is administrators and scripts that need non-interactive FTP uploads with retry, resume, timestamping, proxy, and bandwidth-limit support. SourceForge's project description lists those same features, and Debian, Homebrew, MacPorts, and other package systems have carried it because it fills the upload-side gap left by wget.

### How it is used

Users call wput with local files and ftp:// URLs, or feed URLs and filenames from an input file. The manpage documents background operation, logging, retries, resume handling, timestamp checks, proxy modes, rate limiting, ASCII/binary transfer selection, and forced TLS.

In practice, wput is used in shell scripts and cron jobs where an interactive FTP client would be awkward: mirroring generated files upward, publishing directories to legacy FTP hosting, or resuming large uploads over unreliable links.

### Why package nerds care

wput is a classic small-tool package: one job, a familiar interface, and enough reliability knobs for scripts. It is historically interesting because it mirrors wget's user experience for the less glamorous opposite direction, FTP upload, and because that made it packageable as infrastructure rather than an application.

### Timeline

- 2003-01-06: Upstream ChangeLog records wput-0.2.
- 2004-04 to 2004-08: Major redesign adds queueing, proxy support, config behavior, and resume/skip/upload handling.
- 2006-04-04: wput-0.6 release appears in the ChangeLog.
- 2008-07-26: wdel helper for deleting remote files/directories is added.
- 2008-09-27: wput-0.6.2 release fixes large-file and portability issues.

### Related projects

- wget is the obvious conceptual sibling: wput deliberately copies the wget-like command-line model for uploading.
- wdel is the related helper added by the wput project for deleting remote FTP files or directories.

### Sources

- <https://sourceforge.net/p/wput/code/ci/master/tree/ChangeLog?format=raw>
- <https://sourceforge.net/projects/wput/>
- <https://wput.sourceforge.net/>
- <https://wput.sourceforge.net/wput.1.html>


## Security Notes

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for wput. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.



## Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.


## Configuration files

- Unix: /etc/wputrc, ~/.wputrc, ${WPUTRC}
- Windows: C:\wput.ini, %WPUTRC%

## Credential files

- Unix: ~/.netrc, ${PASSWORDFILE}, .wputpass
- Windows: %PASSWORDFILE%
## Other Package-Manager Records

- Debian apt - wput - 0.6.2+git20130413-14: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: wput from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | tiny wget-like ftp-client for uploading files | http://wput.sourceforge.net/
- Ubuntu apt - wput - 0.6.2+git20130413-12: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: wput from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | tiny wget-like ftp-client for uploading files | http://wput.sourceforge.net/
- apk - wput - 0.6.2-r4: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: wput from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | A command line tool to upload files to FTP site | https://wput.sourceforge.net/
- apk - wput-doc - 0.6.2-r4: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: wput-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | A command line tool to upload files to FTP site (documentation) | https://wput.sourceforge.net/
- MacPorts - wput: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: net/wput/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/wput.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/wput.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph