There's been various attempts at making "easy access to zope from a unix shell" over the years, here's another one. I recently noticed that zsh (www.zsh.org), a ksh/csh/bash replacement, has grown an inbuilt ftp client (yes, this is a bit nuts) - if you've got zsh installed, man zshzftpsys. As it is today, it doesn't support ftp servers on non-standard ports, but this was a 10-minute hack to add it in. Here's a bit of a demo burswood% autoload -U zfinit ; zfinit burswood% zfopen devhost1:8021 User: anthony Password on devhost1:8021: burswood% zfls Control_Panel Examples MailHost acl_users admin_tools browser_id_manager burswood% zfcd Control_Panel devhost1.off.ekorp.com:/Control_Panel burswood% zfls .. CallProfiler Database DavLocks DebugInfo Products Versions burswood% zfcd / devhost1.off.ekorp.com:/ burswood% zfls -l standard* -rw-rw---- 1 Zope Zope 729 Aug 13 04:25 standard_error_message -rw-rw---- 1 ottrey Zope 1807 Aug 7 04:57 standard_error_message_body -rw-rw---- 1 rjones Zope 214 Feb 12 2002 standard_error_message_test -rw-rw---- 1 ottrey Zope 1013 Nov 22 05:36 standard_error_sendmail -rw-rw---- 1 Zope Zope 139 Nov 16 1999 standard_html_footer -rw-rw---- 1 Zope Zope 194 Nov 19 1999 standard_html_header -rw-rw---- 1 Sysproc Zope 282 Jul 26 04:26 standard_template.pt All very strange and twisted. Anthony