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How to get FTP and Telnet back in High Sierra?

Are you missing ftp in cli of mac os? Here is how you can get FTP and Telnet back in High Sierra?

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How to get FTP and Telnet back in High Sierra?

Are you missing ftp, telnet commands in mac os terminal? These utilities were removed from recent version of mac os. Here is how you can get it back:

brew install inetutils

This will restore telnet, ftp, etc…

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Prakash Poudel Sharma

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I'm an independent product manager, founder, and software builder based in Kathmandu. I help teams make product decisions and adopt agentic software development, drawing on over a decade of building software. I write about product thinking, engineering with AI, and hands-on experiments.

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